Loving God, Loving Our Community.
One of the expressions of loving the community is helping meet the physical needs. The greatest thing we can give to another is time. So what if we devoted time (and some muscle) each month to a tangible expression of love?
Someone in our congregation needs help digging some stuff out of a storage shed and taking stuff to the dump. What if a few of us volunteered to be 'stuff movers' one Saturday? How hard could this be? Moving stuff may help us demonstrate the love of Christ to neighbors and friends. After all, Jesus deals with our stuff all the time.
Maybe someone in our church needs a new floor installed on the back porch so big Dan Brown doesn't fall through next time he walks on it. Maybe we can become porch builders for a day in hope that someone would see that we care. Does Jesus care about broken things? Fixing broken lives seems to be the point of redemption.
Since we are not very good at doing what we ought, maybe we just need to declare that from this day forth, the second Saturday of every month, will be the day we declare ourselves servants of one another, carriers of stuff, fixers of broken porches, lovers of Jesus and our neighbor.
What do you think?
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