Last Thursday I wrote this post that hopefully got us thinking…let’s continue that line of thought with this…
What if there was a cancer center that had the cure for cancer? And…you discovered that you had the disease? And….someone told you about the cancer center…so you went there, received treatment and were cured!!!
How would you respond?
- Would you simply be content with going back to that cancer center once a week (or month, whenever you happened to find the time) and sing some songs about the healing you received?
- Would you want to dive into the complexities of the ingredients that were used in your cure and try your best to form an opinion and debate with others who had been healed of that disease?
- Would you be ok with after you were cured that NO ONE ELSE was ever cured at “your cancer curing center” because you simply wanted to become a bunch of former cancer patients who were obsessed with your own healing, forgetting what it was like to actually have the disease and forgetting those outside the walls that still desperately needed to be cured?
- Would you pass by hundreds and thousands of cancer patients in your lifetime, looking down on them and feeling superior to them because you don’t have cancer anymore but they do?
- Would you find other cancer centers that are actually still being used to cure people and try your best to attack and discredit those cancer centers?
No one with a compassionate bone in their body would even THINK of doing the scenarios listed above if they had cancer, been healed and knew others who needed that same healing…and if people DID respond like the scenarios above we would call them cruel, rude, inconsiderate and ungoldy…
Yet in church would we call them normal!
Reality is that if you are in Christ then you were cured of something WAY worse than cancer!!! AND there are BILLIONS on this planet that need that same cure…let’s go get them!!!
For some reason when a large hospital is built people applaud…but when a large church is built people get mad. I am simply asking…which one does more good when it comes to the perspective of eternity?
We’ve got so many more people to reach NewSpring…so many more than need Christ…and we will NOT slow down or shut up until we’ve reached them ALL!!!
So…who are you bringing with you THIS Sunday! (Remember…we are moving our Sunday night services in Anderson at 4 & 6 and in Columbia at 6 to Saturday night for THIS WEEKEND ONLY!) AND…I can promise you that this Sunday will be one of the top five services that we’ve EVER had at NewSpring Church as we continue last weeks question, “Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People!”
I’m so thankful for a church that is willing to do WHATEVER it takes to reach people far from God! You guys are awesome/amazing! See you Sunday!