It has been a little while since our last post. It has been a “busy” season and recently falling 10 feet and breaking five ribs didn’t speed up my long list of “to-do’s” much. We also try to only say things when we think they are important. We continue to encourage Bible study, Prayer, and remembering our blessings in thanksgiving by journaling on our two main social media platforms Facebook and Gab.

We encourage focus on the beauty of nature and art which point to an obvious Creator, we learn who God is from the unique and unparalleled Bible and acknowledge that God is not hiding from us. The Bible exposes us to our brokenness and to our need for our redeemer Jesus Christ. It shows us how we can communicate with God in prayer. We focus on these “personal” devotions because due to busyness and distractions of our modern lives these are often left out of our daily life.

There is one key element in connecting to God that we often leave out of our conversations. This is in that in having faith and in believing on our savior Jesus Christ, we then become part of a body of believers, or as it also put in the Bible, we become the bride of Christ or the church. We don’t focus much on this, not because we don’t think it is important, but because there are thousands upon thousands of churches all over the world with much more time, money, and resources that should be talking to us about why they are worth it.

Standing together as a body led by the Holy Spirit, the church can affect our neighbors for tremendous good and grow us in sanctification. If we are not kept away by persecution or false teaching, both of which are very aggressive and active in this day and age, every genuine believer should want to be part of the local church body.

In Hebrews 10:25 we are told to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another.

But as some of you know, the church or the body of Christ, can often be a stumbling point for the follower of Christ. Especially, these last two years when the pressure of the world order changing has tested the church, and it has revealed cracks we might not have expected to see. I wanted to take a little time as we approach Easter to focus on two main areas. How we can become more connected to God in this busy and distracted world through the church, and how can we not become distanced from God because of church failures. But first, we would like to hear from you. How has church helped you connect to God in this busy and distracted world? Or how have you been able to keep your focus on God despite church failings?

Doug

The words of British poet Robert Abrahams say it well, “For some men die by shrapnel, And some go down in flames, But most men perish inch by inch, In play at little games.”  Our goal is to identify the little games and put a stop to them and put the right weight on the right things.