In Cambodia, my team and I had the honor of teaching Sunday school every week. But because if this we did not get to go to church. Although we did get the opportunity to take communion with our squad once.
I loved teaching Sunday school and I would not change my two months teaching that class for anything. Sunday school brought up many stories from my childhood that I forgot details to and that was very refreshing.
But I wasn’t being poured into. I wasn’t getting to go to church and being apart of a physical church body. I missed the weekly message and worship with a band and words on a screen.
I’m not saying that my squad and my team aren’t a church body, because we are. We are being his hands and feet and that has been an eye opening experience so far.
There is just something about a church congregating once a week to praise and learn more about God. And a huge part of church is going out and practicing/carrying out what you learn on Sundays.
On November 11th I was able to go to church for the first time in more than two months. There was worship with a band and words on a screen. There was a teaching that allowed me to be poured into. I didn’t realize how much I had missed church and being in a church building. I came to realize how much I had taken advantage of the church at home.
Sunday’s are a day of rest. We are so lucky to have the opportunity to be poured into on this day of sabbath. There are so many country’s that don’t have the opportunity to experience church freely, they have to worship and learn in secret, with the threat of being punished for doing so hanging over their heads. As Americans we have taken advantage of the church, especially in the south, aka the Bible Belt. I know for a fact that I have taken advantage of the church.
CHURCH HAS BECOME A SOCIAL EVENT TO SOME, AND A TASK ON A TO-DO LIST FOR OTHERS.
But who am I to say that. I’m just an 18 year old girl who was raised in the Bible Belt and only liked going to church because she liked the way it looked to others. But on this journey I have discovered so much about myself
(go check out my last blog)
NO CHRISTIAN IS PERFECT,
JESUS CALLS FOR THE BROKEN AND HURTING.
HE CALLS FOR THOSE IN WANDERING AND HIDING.
HE CALLS FOR THE IMPERFECT TO GO AND SHARE HIS LOVE.
and he has always done this and he won’t stop doing this.
Be grateful for your church. Throw your hands up in prayer/praise in worship and don’t take into account what others will think, DO IT FOR JESUS.
I used to be afraid to worship the way I wanted, I thought it would be weird if a teenager threw her hands up in praise to Jesus. I didn’t do it because I was scared I would be judged
Go to church to be poured into and learn more about your Abba. Don’t let church be a social gathering or a check on your list.
Fully emerge yourself in the experience that many take for advantage and a portion of the world can’t experience.
