 Posted on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 Church folk are people like any other people. We have our ups and downs like everyone else. We are not immune to the woes of this world. Because of this we can be a pretty "sickly" looking bunch. People go to church and see others who look and act a lot like them and have no desire to seek treatment for their worldly ailments. Some may say,"Why bother? They look as messed up as I do." To many times a church body will be judged on first appearences. Now some of that look is from those that have just come in seeking the medicine that will start them on the road to recovery. Other have just had their first few doses and still look a little green around the gills, as it were. Any reasonable person would not judge how good a job a hospital is doing just based on walking through the doors of the ER and seeing all of the sick and wounded laying there. No they would go to the upper floors of the hospital and see the patients there. They would go check and see if patients were receiving the proper care and treatment. Are they given medications in a timely manner and at proper dosages? Are the therapy sessions helping the patient regain the use of an arm or a leg? Did the surgery succeed in getting rid of the cancer? Even as the patient endures hardships to get better, to be functional again, is the staff supportive and caring? Just as this is how a hospital should be judged, we should hope our churches are also judged by the same standard. Not by a quick glance through the doors but by a long hard look at what is going on in the upper room. Now the really tough question is...What does our upper room look like? Are those that are sick and hurting in spirit receive the treatment that is needed to make them well and whole again? Are we giving teaching in a timely manner and at a proper dose? Are we giving counseling session to help regain the use of lives seemly torn apart and lost? Are we praying so that the cancer of sin is removed from one that is in its grip? Even as a person is strugling and suffering hardships to be functional again are we supportive and caring? Most of all are we LOVING? I started all of this saying, church folk are people like any other people. But we are not just like other people. We are special. Not saying we are better than anyone else, just different. We can do what even the greatest of hospital can not even dream of doing.We can offer the answer that is the cure to all the worldly ailments; Jesus Christ and Him curcified.
In HIs Majesty's Service
Kingschyld 1 John 3:1 No messages have been posted. You must first create an account to post.
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