><>...Dear Nancy and Alan...><>
Just a thought Alan and Nancy
If your congregation is filled with people as you describe, then it is high time to change it by being an example to them of our Lord.
The building people go to at least one day a week is the meeting place of God's people to bring a worthy praise to God our Father.
We go to "church" in order to praise and worship God. We are there to gather in His name. We are there to learn more of Him. The reason we go there is for Him, and Him alone.
We don't go there for ourselves. If however, while we are there for Him, we get some encouragement along the way, then we are doubly blessed. But the gathering of His people in a "church" is for purposes of Reverencing God. And God will see to it that we are blessed.
You know Nancy and Alan, it could be there are people there just like you, who need a word of encouragement, and your being there could be just what they need. We are to lift and encourage one another. And if the churches are filled with the kind of people that you and Alan talk about, then maybe God is showing you that He wants more people like you and Alan to be part of those who gather in His name, so that others there may get a kind word from people like you.
Ps 134:1-3
1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Sincerely,
Shalom...><>
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