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Jesus went to church.
He didn’t go there to hear the pastor preach or the praise band’s licks.
He went there because it is meant to be a bastion for souls who are in need.
At church that day was Willie with the withered hand. (I don’t know his name was Willie, but to give the story a little color, let’s call him that.)
There were also a bunch of religious people sitting around who didn’t particularly like Jesus. The reason they didn’t like Jesus was because he didn’t honor the rituals, the standards and their concepts of worship.
He came to church to help people.
I know this because Jesus asked them a question:
“Are we supposed to use church to help people, to save lives or just to convince one another that we’ve fulfilled the worship calendar?”
They didn’t answer him.
Jesus becomes angry. Do you know why? Because of the hardness of their hearts. Somewhere along the line the worship of God had become more important than the helping of people.
So even though he would receive great criticism, Jesus goes ahead and heals Willie.
And rather than coming out of the church service convicted by the power of a miracle–convinced to become more conscientious at loving the human race–the religious folks leave, get together in a committee, trying to figure out how to get rid of the renegade, Jesus.
So heads up:
When how we conduct church becomes more important than using the time to help people…we are damned by the same angry stare of a loving Jesus.
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