 Posted on Sun, May 2, 2010 I wrote in my last blog, "Church is Where the Heart Is", that something didn't feel right about having church in our new location. I wondered if not having it in a permanent location (a place that we could call our own) was not giving me trouble. Then God showed me that having or not having a building to call a church was not the issue. That so long as Jesus was in the heart of a believer that place was were the church was. PTL! But, in the two weeks since I wrote that blog I have gone to two more Sunday morning services and sad to say I STILL had the feeling that something was not quite right. I frimly believe everything that I wrote in that blog, but I could not shake the feeling of something being wrong. Why was I feeling this way? What else had changed that was troubling my spirit so much that I was coming away feeling less than fulfilled after service? I sat down after last Sunday's service again wondering, pondering, and praying why? Was there something wrong with me, something in my walk that was blocking me from receiving what I was getting before? I couldn't come up with anything. So then, besides the new location, what was different? Then God laid Hebrews 10:24-25 on my heart. "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching". What? What do you mean God? I have only missed one Sunday morning service in nearly a year ( see blog Mirror, mirror). What do You mean forsake not the assembling with others? I am here every Sunday morning! I am here setting up before service. I am participating during service. I then help in tearing down and packing the trailer after the service. I am here doing the ministry that You called me to do. I AM AT CHURCH! I HAVE ASSEMBLED! Then it hit me. I was missing the biggest things this Scripture said to do. "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works... exhorting one another". I was so busy doing, I wasn't FELLOWINGSHIPPING! Sure I was saying Hi to people, even hugging on some. But I was not loving on them as I had in the old building. Seeing how thier week went. How thier kids were doing. Not taking time to talk to them in depth. Telling them how important they are to me. How glad I am that they are in my life! I wasn't doing anything wrong, but I wasn't doing it all. I was letting the hustle and bustle get in the way of being about my Father's business. So this Sunday morning I made the effort to stop being so busy and took more than the two seconds it takes to say hi, and fellowshipped with my church family. You know what? I walked away from this morning's service without that nagging feeling that something was missing. My dear friends and family I do not believe that we should consider this Scripture fulfilled just because we meet on Sunday morning, Sunday night, midweek, or some other time. Unless we do ALL of what it says we are just assembling for the sake of saying I went to church today.
In His Majesty's Service
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