(Rom 5:6 NKJV) For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Sometimes I think we forget that without Christ, we are just sinners… plain and simple.
With Christ, we are still no better than anyone. We are just saved from our sin.
I am very troubled that a vast majority of the body of Christ seems to have forgotten this. Too many of us just blow through life, looking down our noses at those who aren’t Christians.
I remember being in a church service one Sunday morning. A lady came into the church. She had never been there before. She took a seat and before very long she was being asked to leave by some of the church regulars, because they didn’t think she was dressed appropriately.
Thankfully, another man and his wife overheard them asking her to leave and they invited her to sit next to them.
How sad is it that a church can’t look beyond someone’s shortcomings enough to draw them to the one who can fix those shortcomings?
It’s time for our churches to check themselves and ask themselves why they do what they do. Is it because it glorifies God or is it because it’s just what they’re used to doing. Or is it possibly because someone else told them that this is what they’re supposed to do, so they never bothered asking God about it.
I know these are strong statements, but beating around the bush never accomplishes much. We need to be about the business of God’s kingdom, not the business of meeting in a church building just so we can go through the motions again.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400
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