The Ponderings of an Everyday guy continues...Sometimes you just have to order pancakes for breakfast. Sure, eggs with all the trimmings are good, but there are those times we want to mix it up and have the pancakes with butter and syrup. Ohhhhh... the wonderful taste of syrup as it trickles over the tongue and down the throat. Can you say yum?? Of course, we don't eat pancakes for every meal. Can you imagine what syrup would begin to taste like after a few days. Ugh!!! Not more syrup. We would begin to resent it after awhile and it definitely would lose it's "yumminess."
I'm from the South and have lived here most of my life. We call this the "Bible Belt." I can walk in any direction and find a church within a mile or less from my home. Every church around me all have a different flavor. There are even differences between churches of the same denomination. All good people with good preachers, but I've noticed a trend in the past several years that is bothersome and of great concern. With as many "Christian" churches in the same area, why is it a majority of the population are anywhere and everywhere else on Sundays and not in worship. Oh, I'm not blaming the majority population or even the churches. I'm just raising the question.
Could it be the church today has become so "syrupy sour" that we are not impacting our communities for Christ anymore? Have we become indifferent to a lost and dying world to focus more on our own survival? Has the church become ineffective and powerless? Sweet stuff such as syrup tastes good, but it doesn't nourish nor lasts. People need the meat of the Gospel. People need the truth and truth is a person and that person is Jesus Christ. We need to stop trying to keep everyone happy and start giving the best stuff.
Put the syrup away and pass the salt - Let's be salty!
Have a great day,
CW
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