Prodigal:  Howdy, I was just leaving church!

 

Me:  I hope you enjoyed church today?

 

Prodigal:  I did enjoy today but someone people think it is just a building.

 

Me:  Well the church is more than a building and it does have strength.  Let me share with you from E.M. Bounds and his guide to Spiritual Warfare

 

To mistake the true power of the church’s strength is to mistake the true character of the church.  When its character is changed, then all its efforts and aims are also changed.  The strength of the church lies in its devotion to God.  All else is incidental and is not the source of its strength.  But in worldly, popular language, a local church is called strong when its membership is large, and when it has social position and financial resources.

 

It doesn’t matter the size of the church.  What it looks like from the outside.  What it looks like on paper.  God sees the heart of the church and that is where the focus of our eye should be.  Praise God for all types of churches that has a heart beating for Jesus!

 

1 Peter 2:2-3

2. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-3. if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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