One of the visitors at church yesterday is a nurse I’ve known for many
years who just happens to work in the nursing home where my mom is a resident.
Not feeling totally connected in her current church, the visitor and her
husband came to our worship service hoping to feel comfortable and get re-connected.
We greeted one another and taking a seat next to mine she shared her struggle
with knowing she needed to visit our church. “Boy, the Lord just won’t let it go. He’s really been working on me to
come here…and so has your mom!” It’s interesting that whether you are an
evangelist like the Apostle Paul or an elderly nursing home resident, kingdom
work on earth is never done. You can still sow seeds of invitation that produce
fruit. “For to me, to live is Christ and
to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will
mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I
am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better
by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the
body.” (Philippians 2:21-23 NIV)
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