Connected

At a luncheon I sat with a woman who moved back to town, the town of her youth, a couple years ago. I asked if she was established with a church and she lamented she just couldn’t get re-connected to a church because no one could take the place of a former beloved local pastor, who is now deceased. A little later in the conversation she told me she and her family recently joined the Elks Club and how excited they were to be connected to the community. The writer of Hebrews said, “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (Heb 10:23-25 NIV).