Bobble-Heads in Church

Imagine your church as a car and every person is a part of that car.  The pastor is the steering wheel, the elders are the tires,  and everyone who has a part in your Sunday morning service is a different integral part.  Jesus is steering your Sunday morning service down a beautiful road, and the people are blessed tremendously.  That is the way it should be, but only if you are part of the assembled car.

In most church services, there are people who warm a pew and go through the motions, but they are not really integrated into the true purpose and life of the service.  They sing the songs, but they are not truly worshiping.  They listen to the sermon, but their minds are on the football game. They are more like superfluous appendages that are stuck on the body with of no beneficial use.  They are the bobble-head dogs in the back window of the car.

When people start to attend a church, it can be easy for them to be lost in the crowd.  If they don’t actively seek out places in the church where they can serve, they will not make many friends or become a productive part of the church.  House churches don’t have this problem as much since they are small enough that you are not lost in a crowd.  Yet, even in small-group setting, people can be ignored and their talents not utilized.

In these last days, we cannot  afford to let people slip through our fingers like this.  God has given talents and gifts to each Christian, which they must be trained in and utilized for the advancement of the Gospel.  God never created people to be standing around watching the world go by.  He created them to move the world.

If you are not actively involved with your church and using your spiritual gifts, then you are not assembling together with other Christians.  You are simply taking a ride.  If someone you know is this way, then you need to exhort them to use their gifts for Christ in His Church.

The times ahead will be rough, and we must prepare ourselves and those around us.  Assembled together the body of Christ will not only survive but thrive in His power.

Hebrews 10:25 “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”

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