Why go to church?

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the
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 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. Likewise, if I had not gone to
church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead
today!”

When you are DOWN to nothing…. God is UP to
something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the
incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for
our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!