January 17, 2008
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
With all the snow we’ve lately had I’m jealous of those who live in the county…they don’t have to shovel sidewalks. As far back as I can remember volunteers hooked up their tractors or trucks and cleaned off the church parking lot when there was measurable snow. There was no official Snow Removal Ministry, it was just whoever had a blade on their truck and got there got there first. If the lot wasn’t cleaned as soon as it stopped snowing, it was certainly cleaned off before Sunday morning services. Not today. The church parking lot is rutted with layer upon layer of ice and snow. Rather than being cleaned off, the back entrance to the kitchen and fellowship hall has been roped off because of the build-up of ice. Maybe it’s time to think about hiring someone for snow removal.
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Gail;
-----My dad used to drive his tractor from out on Spring Creek Mesa all the way across town to blade the snow off the church parking lot. He generally beat everyone else to it, too. But that was a lot of years ago. That is when the church was quite a bit more about what the Bible was about. The preacher then was less concerned with putting on a big show; there were actually ministry teams, and things in general were done with the realization that congregated people meant congregated needs. Like a magnetic field crossing a wire creates electricity, the mind of Christ crossing the needs of these people created serving. Like it takes a magnet to maintain a magnetic field, it takes godly leaders to maintain the mind of Christ. “It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Eph 4:11-13) “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant…” (Philippians 2:5-7) But of course, the trivial needs of the people are no concern of the church. I actually heard your preacher make that proclamation in a sermon one Sunday morning! It is a different place now, with a different mind.
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