What's with us???!!!!! What are we doing?! What are we adding to our youth group? Our church? Yes, OUR church. It's your church too... what are you adding to it? Just your presence? You think God needs you to fill a pew Sunday Morning, and any other service IF you don't have anything else important to do?! How are you benefiting the church? You're adding something to it, what is it? Is it positive? God-Honoring? Or are we just adding to monotony and Luke-warm spirituality?
Do you read your Bible other than at church...that is if you can find where you put it from last service? Do you try to live the messages you hear, and not just try and stay awake through them. Do you listen intently to the message, or check your watch every five minutes? Do you pray for your Pastor or talk about him? James 1.22-25, "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, decieving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." Do you regularly spend time on your knees praying for His work in your life and church? Do you ask for His power and revival in your church? Do you pray for wisdom for the leaders of your church? Or just talk of what they are doing wrong? Do you pray for and with your peers instead of talking ABOUT them? Do you encourage others? Does your entertainment tear you down spiritually? Do your friends build you up spiritually? Are you an example of Christ in your everyday life? When people look at you, would they know you were a Christian? Would things you say, do, listen to, wear, watch... would they cause someone to be surprised if they found out you went to church?! Are you involved in the ministries of the church? Instead of complaining, do you try to fix the problem? Do you add anything to the church aside from filling a seat? Do you KNOW your church family? Do you talk to others about Christ on a regular basis? Have you witnessed to anyone...ever?! What are we doing?! How do we expect our church to grow and be alive, if we aren't? Don't look around. Look in the mirror. I'm talking to myself just as much here! Acts 9.6, "And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?..." Bored at church? Then do something about it! You get as much out of it as you put into it. There something you can do. Go do it! Get involved with your church!
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