Christ Church may not be very big but it means the world to me!
When I tell people that I attend Christ Episcopal Church they always seem a little _ cautious__ at first. “That _small white____ church next to the police station on Church Ave?” they ask. “What’s that place like?” I joyfully__ tell them that Christ Church is a really _welcoming____ church and that the people are __friendly_, too. Even the priest and staff are _nice_.
By now you should all have received the pledge letter sent via email. Above is my start of the letter. How are you doing? It made me stop and think of all the adjectives I could use to describe my church.
Below, Stuart has submitted an article - Why go to church?
WHY GO TO CHURCH?
A Church go-er 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 3000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So I think I am 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 37 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. 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 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!
When you are DOWN to nothing...God is UP to something!
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
As you think of why you go to church and your role in it, I pray that the Holy Spirit will speak to you.
2 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Enjoy - Take me back by Cochren & Co.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eTOcrWu8mQ&list=RD3eTOcrWu8mQ&start_radio=1
Stay Safe! Be Blessed!