(You need to pretend you are in church for this one. Okay?)
A QUESTION ABOUT ALL THOSE SERMONS
Welcome to church this morning, my friends.
I’ve got a question to ask you.
I need to set it up, first.
Here goes.
Those of you who have been Christians for a while, I want you to think back to a church experience you had in the past (prior to your time here).
Got it in mind yet?
Now I want you to remember the people of that church experience you were a part of.
Who were some of the key folks you loved and appreciated and ministered alongside?
And secondly, who were some of the key folks you would rather not be reminded of?
Know what I mean?
And now, lastly (and you may or may not have thought about him or her already), I want you to think of your former pastor at the church you have in mind.
And while you’re thinking of him (or her) I want you to answer – finally, here’s the question:
Can you remember any of his (or her) sermons?
Think now.
I’ll bet the higher percentage of you can’t name a handful of messages while others of you – you can admit it – you don’t remember a single one, do you?
Well, I guess it was all for naught then.
All that time was wasted.
Or was it?
No, it wasn’t.
ALL THOSE SERMONS KEPT US GOING
Let me explain it this way.
Don’t ask me to recite the entire menu of any of my wife’s meals she’s cooked for me over the 26+ years of our marriage because I can’t do it.
But I ate them all!
(Well, all except for certain vegetables!)
And the fact is my wife’s meals kept me going all these years.
Even though I can’t remember them all, I needed every last one of them.
And so it is with spiritual meals – sermons! – beloved, even when we can’t recall them.
They’ve done us good.
They’ve kept us fit and moving forward.
Come to think of it, is that a hunger pain I just felt in my spirit?
I wonder what’s on the message menu today?
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