God is Love! Go to Church!



After thinking about the Beatle song from yesterday and how beautiful love is described in the song "In My Life", I began to think about God and His love. I know that God loves because he heard my cry as a young man and came to me. He changed my life forever and I will never be the same. The beauty of my meeting with the Lord was that He came to me and rescued me outside the walls of a church building. In fact, I had never attended church anywhere before that time.

The love of God was so personal and so beautiful to me that I had a difficult time trying to figure out what the traditional church was doing. Now I understand the story about Peter and John standing before the Sanhedrin with a lot more clarity. The Sanhedrin were religious men gripped by the law forbidding Peter and John to do miracles in the name of Jesus.

Acts 4:18-20

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

I really relate to Peter and John here. This wasn't about doctrine. This wasn't a Sunday morning sermon. This wasn't a prayer meeting or a bible study. This wasn't about some man made organized effort created only to satisfy our religious nature. No, this was about what they had seen and heard. You see, this was the real God touching real people. This is why sunday mornings at traditional church settings were always a bit difficult for me because I didn't come to the Lord that way. God seemed so distant when I attended church after my conversion. I now know why. This appears to be an untended failure of the American Church. I can clearly see after 30 years of participation that God is Love and Go to Church do not necessarily work in harmony. I have concluded that what we all see on Sunday morning inside a local church building may not necessarily be the church at all and so my prayer is that God help us all.

So much for now

Davey