A Christ Follower: The Journey

There are many people who cannot see any reason why they need to gather and be a part of worship or listen to a sermon.  The following story (though its been around a while,  and the author unknown) answers their concerns quite well.  Matter of fact, these  concerns say more about the one asking the question than they will ever be able to discern.  Anyway... Check this oldie but good. If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If not... not so much :o) Why Be Involved In A Community of Faith? A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a 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

Indeed... there are a lot of people struggling "out there."  But if they learn the miracle of intimacy with God and prayer, they will experience the power that enables them to overcome every trouble and every care."  Al McGowen. I have done a whole lot of living. I have seen and experiened some of the most wonderful sights in the world, and I am not exaggerating. Then too... I have seen and experienced things no human being should ever have to see or experience.  Some of these have been, shall we say, challenging:  I have lost my job, thus my identity, my dignity, and I have experienced more pain than I can write about in this frame. Some of this trauma is related to military experiences and have been in the form nightmarish dreams. Some "challenges" have come as the fruit of vicious religious people inflicting pain,  and some of it  has been in the form of debilitating physical shock to my various somatic systems. Now I don't say this to whine or say &q