February 17, 2014
Perspective
In a recent Dear Abby column
a letter writer, who described herself as an atheist, was pressured by her
husband to accompany him to church. Apparently the husband grew up attending
church, drifted away, is now reconnecting, and wants his wife to join him.
However, because the wife was raised just the opposite, she felt uncomfortable
in church and with the sermons. Abby considered the situation from both the
husband’s and wife’s perspective, and then advised the woman not to attend. It’s
interesting that none of the three looked at the situation from the perspective
of the church. Certainly the church doors are always open to anyone who wants
to worship, but having a person who does not even believe in the existence of
God as a pew partner is a little strange.
“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness
and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with
darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial?
What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What
agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple
of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them,
and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (2 Cor 6:14-16 NIV)
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Gail;
-----Church is the “place” where we are all knit together in love. More accurately, it is all of us who know the Lord knit together, so it‘s less a place than it is an us. For that knitting to be, threads must tie both ways. Each person is bound by the love of others, and each person binds others in extending to them his love. This is the basic operation and function of the body of the Lord, and it is why the worship service is not the ideal place for non-believers, seekers or otherwise. They certainly can be tied up in the love of others, but they have not a clue about this “God’s Love” so they can tie up others in its coming through themselves. For the body to be anything to anybody there must be participation in one another. “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” (I Cor 12:26) “…we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.” (Eph 4:15b-16)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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