Two of my church brothers spent the morning helping me with a project. It wasn’t just advice or encouragement or new ideas. It was all of that, but it was also hard work on a cold day. I couldn’t keep up with those two. I had become discouraged by the clear enormity of the task ahead. I hadn’t been able to focus on what needed to be done. By 10 am, we had accomplished all had planned for the week. By lunchtime, I was two weeks ahead of schedule and I had promises of future help and more ideas of what to do and how than I could have ever gotten from YouTube. I won’t name these guys. They wouldn’t want that.
I have been teaching on the “church” for several weeks. Some good teaching based on a good book, Letters to the Church, by a wise author, Francis Chan. These guys taught the lesson better than hours of study, preparation and presentation.
Church is prayer and worship and teaching and fellowship, but Jesus didn’t list those things as the identifiers of His church. That’s in the way we love. We don’t love by mushy talk or flowery words. We love by rolling up our sleeves and pitching in.
Love you guys. Love you for your work, but mostly for your example. This is Church, just like Jesus intended.
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