Our first granddaughter was born two days before Thanksgiving Day. A few days before and one day after she was born, I went in the hospital with heart problems.
The cure? Sedate me and give my heart an electric shock!
My heart was found to have atrial fib. That is when the upper and lower chambers of the heart are not in sync. As a result, the heart does not pump blood efficiently. That led to shortness of breath, dizziness and anxiety.
I think I just described many local churches in Slidell.
Different members of the local body have different ideas and agendas which results in not working well together and illness in the whole body.
A body does not grow unless health is restored. Neither does a church.
I also say it describes lack of cooperation between Christian congregations in Slidell. Many are so focused on meeting their own budgets, baptisms and attendance goals they don’t have to time or resources to help ministries like CCC, Crisis Pregnancy Help Center or one another.
Some are even shutting down.
Want a radical idea? If your church meets for mid week prayer meeting, have someone make a report about another local congregation. Pass out the information like the name of pastor and leaders in the other church along with the church address.
Then pray for them.
Ask God to bless them and build unity among brothers & sisters in Christ in our area.
Then write them to tell them you will be praying for them. (If you really want to touch them, then take up an offering that night and mail it to their church to use as the LORD leads them to use it)
Results? They (the world of non-believers) will know we are His by our love for one another.
Who will be the first to try this?
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