WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GOING TO CHURCH?

A person who used to go to Church wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.

[Sometimes we may have disliked it; some other times relished it; on some occasions taken out of helplessness (our father watching over and compelling us to take it!) or other times taken it with a sense of need (because we were hungry!). Still it is the food that has kept us going in our lives.]

Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would have been spiritually dead today!"

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!”