I wrote: We do miss those of you who could not worship with us this morning. Those of you who have moved away, and those who missed this morning – you may all have had good reasons for not being with us. You know you can worship wherever you live if there is a church there that you can feel welcome in. You can worship on your own too, but we do need to worship together with fellow-believers too. The writer of The Letter to the Hebrews says in Ch. 10 vs. 25 "not to forsake gathering together, as some do."
The best story I have heard about this goes like this:
A pastor was visiting a man who was not going to church but said he was a Christian. They were sitting in front of a fireplace. The pastor got up and moved a coal, a burning piece of wood, away from the rest of the fire. Soon the fire in it had died down. The man got the message. We need to be with one another to keep the fire of God burning in our hearts.
May God give us all a blessed week!
NOTE: Chapter 3 is not included in this series as it concerns my wife's story, which I did not feel I was at liberty to publish, although I had shared it with our class, who knew her, of course. Remember, this series was originally written for our Bible class in the summer of 2008.
NOTE: Chapter 3 is not included in this series as it concerns my wife's story, which I did not feel I was at liberty to publish, although I had shared it with our class, who knew her, of course. Remember, this series was originally written for our Bible class in the summer of 2008.
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