If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!

A Church goer 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 at all."

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

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

Don't wait until the hearse hauls you to church.  If you do:
    1. You will go, regardless of the weather.
    2. You will go, regardless of the condition of your body.
    3. There will be beautiful flowers there, but you won't enjoy them.
    4. You will go, regardless of how your family feels.
    5. The minister may say many good things, but they will do you no good.
    6. There will be beautiful music, but you won't hear it.
    7. There will be heartfelt prayers, but they will not touch your heart.
    8. There will be friends and relatives there, but you won't worship with them.
    9. You will go, no matter how many hypocrites are there.
    10. You will go, no matter how much you are needed at home or work.
    11. You will receive no blessing from the service.
    12. You won't feel concerned about your clothes.
    13. You will never have to decide about attending church again.

Aren't you glad to be alive and well and full of zest and able to choose to go to church?

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