Today's Minute

A week ago I asked, “Why go to church?”  Because people today live with short bursts of information, an invitation to sit in a pew for an hour isn’t very inviting.  Here’s what two of you wrote to me.

“For community and sharing with other living, feeling, loving, thinking human beings.  Even though almost everything is at our finger tips electronically, the feeling of community and interaction with living beings is necessary.”

“If Christ really rose bodily from the dead, and gave us the hope of a bodily resurrection, and if we come to receive Christ’s true body and blood at the altar, nothing short of a bodily congregation, and a gathering of real flesh and blood people will suffice.”

David Kinnamon wrote in “Unchristian,” “The devotion of the first Christians was powered primarily by their close association with Jesus.  He had lived and walked among them.  They were willing to die for Christ because their loyalty had been forged in their interactions with him.”  (p. 208)

Real people are a major reason why Diane and I go to church.  We have experienced that blessing, but people outside the church haven’t had the experience.  So if you’re outside the church, haven’t experienced the blessing of being with Christ’s flesh and blood people, the question remains, “Why go to church?”

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