Last Sunday one of our ladies fainted right before church started and
the ambulance was called. The responders included the police, fire department
and EMT’s numbering about 10 people. Virginia was accompanied to the hospital
by her husband Don, an old time preacher/overseer/shepherd of the flock. Once
the emergency was past and Virginia was safe in the doctor’s care, I’m pretty
sure Don was thinking we should be able to add those emergency personnel to our
attendance for the week. So the question
begs, exactly how long does a warm body need to be in the building before you
can add them to the count?
1 comment:
Gail;
-----That’s cute. I suppose from a perspective of why these ten people showed up at the church, you could not count them in attendance. Why did it take ten of them? Because their aim was preserving the life of Virginia’s body, certainly, and saving her soul from the fate of our longing - going home to that place of perfection in His presence. That’s not nice.
-----But that we desire to go there doesn’t mean we all necessarily desire to abandon this place of imperfect life now. There are many joys in it, the comforting company of loved ones in difficult times, being comforting company to loved ones in difficult times, and the simple glory of standing the best we can for the Lord’s perfect principles in the face of a much less than perfect environment. We will never get another moment of this condition again after we’ve abandoned our temporal bodies for His perfect place. So the presence of these ten people added their gifts to those of His body fellowshipping there by maintaining Virginia’s glory to God within that fellowship. “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” (I Cor 12:26) For at least a short moment, these ten folks exchanged the suffering for rejoicing in His body. Surely they could be numbered.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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