Why Go To
Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor
of a
newspaper and complained that it made no sense to
go
to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years
now,"
he wrote, "and in that time I have heard
something
like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I
can't
remember a single one of them.. So, I think
I'm
wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs
by
giving sermons at all."
This started an
interesting discussion in the "Letters to the
Editor" column, much
to the delight of the editor. It
went on for weeks until someone
wrote this clincher:
"I've been married
for 30 years now. In that time my
wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.
But, for the life
of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a
single
one of those meals. But I do know this... They
all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to
do
my work. If my wife had not given me these meals,
I
Would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had
not
gone to church for nourishment, I would be
spiritually
dead
today!"
Thank God for our physical AND
our spiritual nourishment!
