WHY GO TO CHURCH??
Posted by: oldtiminma <oldtiminma@...>
> Church - What is it good for?
>
> 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 a real controversy 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 cooked these meals,
> I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to
> church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
>
> When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something!
> Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and
> receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical
> AND our spiritual nourishment!
>
> "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say,
> "Jesus, could you get that for me >>