Sunday's a Comin'!

Years ago I heard Tony Campolo give a sermon with this byline - ‘But Sunday’s a comin’.  The backdrop was the dark days preceding Jesus' crucifixion but never fear because resurrection morn was comin'! But the cultural motivation of Tony's sermon was that people actually looked forward to the Sunday morning worship service. Now I know that you can worship on Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, with friends or on Facebook. Truth be told, if you're going to be a church you have to have a healthy enthusiasm for being together and for AR that means Sunday morning. This was the pattern of the early church. (so there!) We gather for the Word and worship every Sunday morning even if it falls on Christmas! This is huge for a group of people who call themselves a church. That's why even Satan is engaged in keeping folks from this event. He'll be glad to lob a grenade or two into your living room to mess you up on Sunday morning.  He'll even suggest that you need time alone worshiping in the great outdoors at that very time! Don't listen to him. Fight through it. Get to church. Faith that overcomes the world can certainly make it to church! If you are a child of God, he has redeemed you, gifted you, and placed you in a church so that you'll know it's not all about you, it's about serving God in 'the Body'. And a body just isn't complete if it's missing something!

This fall I am calling for an ‘all hands on deck’ Sunday commitment to church.  Come loaded for bear every Sunday morning! Commit 9am to 12 noon to the Lord and to the body.  There will be children to teach, babies to love, people to encourage, practice for worship, and set up to do in the name of Christ.  If you can’t find a job you can sit in on some great teaching! Then we'll bring a sacrifice of praise and worship the living God. You may be having a tough week but I have great news - Sunday’s a comin’!