Only Found Here!

What a selling point the above words are! You can only find it here. If “it” happens to be something that everybody wants or needs, can you imagine the line at the check out! On the other hand, if you can get “it” everywhere then people think, well I’ll get it tomorrow, after all there is no hurry, “it” will always be available.  Rick Warren the pastor of Saddleback Church in California says, “The church must offer people something they cannot get anywhere else.” What is it that we have that is unavailable elsewhere? Could it be food for the hungry? While we are commanded by Jesus to feed the hungry, we all know that other organizations do the same. Could it be fellowship for the lonely? Again, while we are commanded to visit the broken others also visit and offer comfort. Perhaps “it” is clothes for the naked or medicine for the sick, or education for the child. But others offer all of these you say. What do we have that no one else has? What can we offer that is uniquely the churches to offer? The answer is Jesus! The music we sing will always change, the style of our worship spaces will look different from generation to generation, the technology we use will be different as each day passes but the message must never change. The only hope for this world is Jesus. Jesus is THE way, THE truth, and THE life; He always has been and He always shall be. This message belongs to the church; it is the only message uniquely ours, “it” is only found here, in the body of Christ!