You may have heard of the mother who one Sunday morning went in to wake her son and tell him it was time to get ready for church, to which he replied, “I’m not going.”
“Why not?” she asked.
“I’ll give you two good reasons,” he said. “One, they don’t like me, and two, I don’t like them.”
His mother replied, “I’ll give you two good reasons why you should go to church. One, you’re 50 years-old, and two, you’re the pastor!”
Now this has nothing to do with the people in the churches I work with. I love them and can’t wait to be with them. But long ago, and far away… Okay, just kidding.
And neither do I think the pastor is God, but reading this joke made me start to think about whether God would want to go to church?
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Now if you were God would you want to go to a place where you didn’t feel welcome or at home? Or where people were saying things about you that just weren’t true? Or where people hated your son?
So next time you’re in church, give God a warm welcome…and maybe a special gift for being a first-time visitor!
Questions to consider:
Do you feel closer or further from God after being in church?
If you could, what changes would you make in church?
Is it necessary to go to church?
