What if your CHURCH is pregnant?

Your wife has begged you to get her out of the house. She is 8 months along in her fourth pregnancy and by her own description she is: “bigger than a barn”. It is 100 degrees outside. You are parking in front of the store she has mandated you to go to (she is pregnant so whatever mama wants mama gets). Then, out of nowhere like a NASCAR pretender, a lady in her mid 50′s, WHO IS NOT PREGNANT, whips her car into the “Expectant Mothers Only” parking spot, cutting you off while your try to park. What do you do? Well, the right thing to do would be to allow your wife to “bounce” out of the car as if free c-sections are being given away at the door and run/waddle to the the lady before she gets to the door and ask her: “when are you due?” Well, maybe that’s not the “right thing” but it is what my wife did. I was both proud of her and hesitant at the same time!
What about what we do at church? Do we do the same thing? I don’t mean do we go up to people in the parking lot and ask them “when are you due?”
No, i mean that in the church this should translate into the thought that: we should be making sure our actions and activities are in line with what is best for the Kingdom and what reaches the most people with His love. If we truly believe that we are liable for what we do and believe our actions have a positive or negative impact in culture, then, shouldn’t we be more prudent in what we put on the calendar of our lives and spend all of our time doing? In other words, what if “the church” is “pregnant” with activities that are causing others to be neglected, the people we should truly be helping, shouldn’t someone come forward and loving say, “are you due?, i.e. “Is that what you should be doing”?

Doing what matters can be equated to how we live at home. Here are some reminders about how we live at home that will help make sure we are not walking through life missing what is important:

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