Here's something I came across in a journal of mine from eight years ago:
"You don't light a candle and then put it under a bowl. Is the church that bowl? What are our people doing to carry the light that is in them to the world? If their light isn't even shining in the church, how can we expect it to be shining elsewhere?"
Ouch. This is something I think we as a church need to ask ourselves more often than we do. Are we really loving each other? Are we coming to each others' rescue when everything is falling apart? If someone in the body is hurting, do they believe that anyone hurts with them or do they feel only isolation? Church should be a place where it is safe for us to practice the art of love and where we do so frequently so that we are better suited to practice the same love in places where it is more difficult. By doing so, we become the light of the world.
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