I have gone to the same gym for 3 years with much the same people/ I've noticed 80% have stayed the same, 10% have gotten better in shape, 10% have gotten oddly more out of shape ( even though they have still been trying and faithful to show up). I've ever seen some of these fitness nuts out at a local rest. stuffing their face.Yet i have never heard anyone say that the local gym is full of hypocrites. They desire and pursue one thing and at other times openly struggle making decisions that support the wishes and work they put in.
Isn't the same with church? most faithful attenders stay the same, a few change for the better, and oddly some can even grow further away from God and make worst decisions. (even though they show up) funny thing is we never accuse a gym of being full of hypocrites because we saw some of them buffeting at cicis. We know and realize that at the gym people get out of it what they put in to it. Same at church. When we come to a point in which when realize we need to have a healthy spiritual change. We give our best effort , try to make some lifestyle changes and realize that the 2 hours a week we spend at church can not void out the other 24times 7 hours we may spend pleasing our flesh. It is easier to cut out 500 calories from your daily diet than trying to exercise 500 calories off every day. I mean who of us really goes to the gym on Saturday or Sunday. Most of us are only Monday at 5:30 type of gym goers anyway.Yet We never avoid a certain gym because we know 1 hypocrite that goes there. Yet the devil will us that to keep us from church for long periods of time.
My heart is for anyone that has been hurt or disappointed by church is that instead of distancing from the church my prayer is that they one day will give church another chance. My prayer is that restoration could one day be used as the last church people try before they give up on god and his church.
Monday, February 28, 2011
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