Maybe This?

You know what's frustrating? You have a good idea, or you read something that struck you--and there's no one to share it with. Maybe, too, the ones you shared it with didn't share your excitement.

I think that's how i view this blog. I really have no purpose behind it, except that every so often, I feel the need to "say something." No rhyme nor reason to the topics, not even a "stream of consciousness." So maybe THIS will prime the pump.

How about every Sunday afternoon, I post a short summary of the morning's teaching. I don't like call it a sermon, because it's not often "crafted" well, and those present give the delivery/setting a flavor that the outline cannot follow (not that I am a great communicator or expositor anyway). Not fake humility--just the truth.

Anyway, I developed an overall theme (witnessing, evangelizing, whatever you want to call it), based on the four or five suggestions of "sermon" topics--they all revolved around reaching out.

One brother suggested a message about evangelizing those who have left the church; that was yesterday's topic, using Galatians 6:1-2 and James 5:19-20. In one case, someone is caught in sin (either overtaken by it or discovered committing it); in the other, someone wandered away. Both cases involve believers who need to be restored or reclaimed.

Our building has three entrance/exit doors upstairs, and one downstairs. It's the one downstairs I spoke about. Sunday school total is almost always 16-20; morning service lately has been 10 or so. Where did people go? Out the back door downstairs, often without a chance for anyone to say good bye or check on them. So I suggested that, if we have the compassion of Jesus who sought the wandering sheep, the lost son, who came to seek and save the lost, if people go out the back door (spiritually speaking), we need to be at their front door.

Both texts have something else in common. The one who goes is not necessarily a minister, a leader, a trustee--it's just "someone" in James, and a "spiritual one" (who manifests the fruit of the Spirit towards the wanderer) in Galatians.

Anyway, this is a start, to try something new. Maybe add further reflections which I sometimes have later on Sunday afternoons. Check in. Maybe I'll surprise you--and myself--by posting!