When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is forbidden on the sabbath.” He answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry? He went into the house of God and ate the sacred bread, though neither he nor his men had a right to eat it, but only the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and they are not held guilty? But I tell you, there is something greater than the temple here. If you had known what this text means, ‘It is mercy I require, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” Matthew 12:2–8
Today is a gathering day for our church. I have the privilege of being with dozens of people who come to a gymnasium with folding chairs in order to worship God, and learn from his word. What a neat people I have to share God with.
There's farmers, housewives, electricians, bankers, food processors, students and more. All ages, all levels of income and education. I love the people who are the Church for me.
Church...not a building.
Church...not an event.
Church...not Sunday morning.
Church...not a program.
Church...the people of God gathered to worship God and learn from His word - together, in community, in humility, in their own needs - sickness, disease, economic woes, marital and family woes, etc...
"We have these treasures in earthen vessels..." Paul says to the Corinthians.
Earthen vessels....clay pots...apt to be cracked, even broken.
Church is full of "cracked pots"...I'm one of them.
Sabbath is that time when we cracked pots come to worship God and learn from his word, and do it with a lot of other cracked pots!
Peace
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