Put Church Back Together

      I am a notorious list maker! Each day while working in the office here at church I always begin to make a "To Do" list for the next day. Now like any other busy Pastor that list changes often, sometimes hour by hour. Each time I finish a task on the list I cross thru it and go on the another one. This morning when I got to Church one of those items that I added to my list said this: "Put church back together". Now the reason I wrote it down was that yesterday we had a funeral here at Church and then I had to leave right after the meal for another funeral I had that afternoon. I did not have the time that day to clean up my mess in the altar area or my office. Not to mention getting the Foyer furniture and other items put back where they belong. This is why I wrote down, "Put Church back together". But later in the morning when I looked back at my "To Do" list this one jumped out at me, "Put church back together". Boy did my words startle me! What an awesome task this is. Shoot, the old nursery rhythm tells us that "not even all the kings horses and all the kings men could put Humpty together again". Who am I then to put the Church back together. You see, the Church universal , worldwide is in need of some major repair! We have lost our focus. We have made Church about what "I" want it to look like and that it needs to meet everyone of "MY" needs and be responsive to each and everyone of "MY" pet ministries and of course it needs has to agree with the way that "I" think on each and every theological issue under heaven! But our actual focus should be on Christ and He alone. We need to spend more time in His Word and less time in the newspaper or on Facebook. More time in worship of Him and less time making certain our every whim is met. If we were to focus more on Christ, He then would put His Church back together, just how He had always planned it would be. So let's let Jesus do His thing and then wait and see what His/Your Church will look like!
Love ya' All Pastor Rick Koch Dutchtown Church