Why Go To Church?

i got this in an email recently thought i would share it with yall:

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday... "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 203,000 sermons.  But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.  So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor.

 It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" 

remember it is just as important to keep spiritually in shape as it is to keep physically in shape.

love yall and ill be finishing up the Renewed Strength post this week

Intimate Worship

What more exciting thing is there than to worship our GOD?! To lift our praise to HIM? Its magnificent!! Why is it then that at church on Sunday i only see a handful of people really worship? I don't mean you have to be all dancing in the isles but really HE created us, HE loves us!! GOD deserves more than a halfhearted worship!! When i worship GOD i forget that I'm in church with a bunch of people; its just HIM and me! This happens when you worship HIM from your heart. If you will put aside all your fears and worries for a few seconds and really tell HIM you love HIM then you'll forget about everything else. Why? Because then you will feel an amazing thing!! You see GOD is there when we go to church. Sometimes though we overlook HIM. But once you find HIM you will never want to leave. There is a song called I Could Sing Of YOUR Love Forever if you will begin to sing then you will want to sing forever.

Today i challenge you that when you get church this morning or Wednesday or whenever you go next that you will sit in the very back where you don't have to worry about people seeing you (if you want go ahead and sit in the front it doesn't matter its just easier in the back) and for one minute lift your hands and sing to GOD! HE is there and HE will hear your praise!
Good luck and i love yall

Over the mountains and the sea
Your river runs with love for me
And I will open up my heart
And let the Healer set me free

I’m happy to be in the truth
And I will daily lift my hands
For I will always sing of when Your love came down

I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever
I could sing of your love forever

Oh I feel like dancing
It’s foolishness I know
But when the world has seen the Light
They will dance with joy like we’re dancing now

Whats the point?

2 posts ago i wrote about a book called "To Save A Life" . One statement sticks alot tho.

Whats the point of all THIS if it isnt going to change you. The boy says that after he goes to a youth group and they are mainly just playing around , having a good time. Just 3 weeks before was the last time his friend walked through the doors, and the next day committed suicide. Now, get me right, im not at all saying church should be totally serious/no fun ever. But, i think sometimes we get way caught up with our "church group" or what we are doing and forget the whole reason were there. but seriously, what is the point of all this if it isnt going to change you. you leave the doors of the church, and immediately pull out your cell phone, computer, ipod etc. and it throws all that church stuff out the window. Anymore, being a Christian doesnt necessarily mean anything to me- Just because people use it so loosely. Even surveys have been conducted showing that 75% of America says they are Christians???? what??? who actually is living it out , really. I would more think that maybe 10% are really Christians. What does that say about us! people are obviously in churches. But , are they really saved.? So, i ask again. What is the point of all THIS if it isnt going to change YOU?