“All I want out of church is to go every Sunday and hear a good sermon.”
The man approached me rather assertively. He wasn’t happy with the missions and service–the request for people to do ministry that I lead–since it was a burden for him.
There are two types of people in church, I guess. Those who want to “be fed.” And those who want to feed.
We know that Jesus had the custom of going to the synagogue. But I can’t find one instruction where Jesus told us that the purpose of spiritual life was going and sitting.
Rather his stories were about prayer, having a heart set on God, and relations with other people.
I guess it’s an old story, but it just came home to me again.
Do we just go to church? Or, are we the church?
Faith Venture 
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