Church

I attended a interesting service at Northwest New Life Church today.

It was held in a school auditorium, and fairly well attended. The worship was well, more alive then the one i am used to at St John's.

What was interesting was what the pastor spoke about today. Well, it was not his main sermon, it was a story. It began when he was in Bible College. the class was asked to prepare a sermon on the topic of the good Samaritan. They were then told to meet somewhere on the day of the "test" and told to go to another corner of the school to present the sermon.

What was the idea of the lesson? Well, along the way to their designated location, they would run into a person in obvious need. He was dressed in dirty rags. The students who had prepared the sermon topic walked straight passed the guy who needed help.

SOmetimes we are rushing to do God's work, when we forget that God's work is out life. we should not be rushing to do God's work, we should be doing God's work. I felt that God spoke deeper on the topic. He wanted me to know, that it is never the big things that God will ask us about, the things that we did for the world to see. It is the small things we do when no one sees that counts.

Picking up the piece of litter. Stating your age accurately so that you are charged the proper price. Tearing your coupon accurately. Going at fifty when the limit is fifty, seventy when the limit is seventy. Not lying about having heavy traffic on the raod when you are late when actually you were reading some joke in the Newspaper. It is not that you should be righteous when you can be caught. But be righteous when there is no one there.