“I cannot say that you have done well in holding meetings that do you more harm than good … I hear that when you come together as a community, there are separate factions among you” (I Corinthians 11:17-18).
There is an old aphorism which says:“Some people go to Church to see who didn’t.” There is another that goes something like this:
Attend your Church, the pastor cries;
To Church each fair one goes.
The old go there
to close their eyes,
The young to eye the clothes.
In terms of what God is doing in the Church — and in the home, and in the city, and in the world, we are in need always of reexamining our role as Church-goers. Are we spectators or are we participants? Are we watchers or are we doers? Are we detached or are we involved? Are we merely giving lip service to the Good News of New Life in Christ or are we experiencing…
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