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remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please
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These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
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What
if on a Sunday morning all of the names of the church members and
regular attendees were put in the offering plate and every Sunday those
in attendance would each pull out a name, and to that person he or she
had to report in on Sunday afternoon.
List all they had done the last week, and thought, and followed through on, and what Christian deeds had done or failed to do…good, bad and indifferent.
What would be the results?
Well, first, would everyone stop coming to church?
Quite probably.
Reporting in to God is hard enough. Reporting in to each other could be downright embarrassing.
For there is what we say we ought to do, and what we actually do.
What we say is talk. What we do is commitment.
What is commitment? Well, many people are more than willing to serve God as long as it is in an advisory capacity.
If your name were “Winter” and you were 32 years old and you shared with me what you had been busy doing, you would tell me that in the last seven years you had visited 4,122 Starbuck stores and drunk half a cup of coffee in each and every store.
You would tell me that it was your lifelong goal to visit each and every Starbuck’s that exists. It would be a monumental task because Starbuck’s opens ten new company- operated outlets around the world every seven days.
You would tell me that to achieve this objective you have been traveling and sleeping in your car with no air conditioning and that it smells like stale coffee. You would gloat that on one recent trip through Oregon you actually visited 28 stores in one single day. If I asked you why you were doing this, you would reply, “Starbuck’s is my life. I can’t foresee myself stopping. It is just too rewarding an experience.”
And I would weep and you would have no idea why I was weeping for you, because you would be totally committed, but why and to what end?
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
List all they had done the last week, and thought, and followed through on, and what Christian deeds had done or failed to do…good, bad and indifferent.
What would be the results?
Well, first, would everyone stop coming to church?
Quite probably.
Reporting in to God is hard enough. Reporting in to each other could be downright embarrassing.
For there is what we say we ought to do, and what we actually do.
What we say is talk. What we do is commitment.
What is commitment? Well, many people are more than willing to serve God as long as it is in an advisory capacity.
If your name were “Winter” and you were 32 years old and you shared with me what you had been busy doing, you would tell me that in the last seven years you had visited 4,122 Starbuck stores and drunk half a cup of coffee in each and every store.
You would tell me that it was your lifelong goal to visit each and every Starbuck’s that exists. It would be a monumental task because Starbuck’s opens ten new company- operated outlets around the world every seven days.
You would tell me that to achieve this objective you have been traveling and sleeping in your car with no air conditioning and that it smells like stale coffee. You would gloat that on one recent trip through Oregon you actually visited 28 stores in one single day. If I asked you why you were doing this, you would reply, “Starbuck’s is my life. I can’t foresee myself stopping. It is just too rewarding an experience.”
And I would weep and you would have no idea why I was weeping for you, because you would be totally committed, but why and to what end?
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL
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