Sunday, August 01, 2004

Thinx 8: Church cleaning

Why is it so hard to find people willing to spend a couple of hours cleaning the church? Where is the gratitude for all that the church, and indeed Christ, has done?

Giving is an outworking of us being like God. He gives so that we have something to be generous with. God isn't a hypocrite; he has been generous too -- he gave his Son! And yet, we are so unwilling to practise what we are called to and enabled to do. Jesus let go of his rights and was incarnated. We grimly hang onto our rights and expect someone else to be the cleaner incarnate!

1 comment:

Accidental Academic said...

why is it so hard to find people who are willing to pack up chairs. Or people who are willing to lead church? Sometimes we actually need to ask! I can count on one hand to amount of times church cleaning has been discussed at an evening service in the last 8 years! Alot of younger people don't even know it is something that needs people to help with.
I myself don't officially do it as i believe i do it every 3 weeks when i set up the church for an evening service!