Building Bridges.....

Summer in church! How about your church? do they run slower or shut down during summer? Many churches in Sweden run very slow during summer and some even shut down. "People in general travels or do other things during the summer month." Yes it is true and I can see that in our church as well, but to shut down!? Many churches stay open but shut down some parts of their activities, in general their children or youth gatherings. One youth pastor said: "well we will close down because people travels a lot and do other things." That might be true but it ain't everyone who can afford to travel, it ain't all who are capable to do other things, and God never takes vacation! One congregation in Stockholm does the opposite, they do even more things for the youth during summer and they really reach out this way to the community! In London 4 churches raise around 70.000 pounds every year to a big annual family park mission, and by doing this they reach p

Impress that's what we very often like to do, impress people. Very often you can hear people telling stories how smart they are, how much money they have, what kind of car, house boat etc they have. Where they went for a holiday. It cost keeping up appearance's! We try to impress people with what kind of job we have, how much we have to do at our work place or free time. What we ourselves have been denied, we want to achieve through our children., So we keep on running around trying to impress people on how smart our kids are, what they do on their free time, how tall they are, where they attend school etc. We try so hard to impress people that we in many cases don't like, not even know enough. Some people are so poor that the only thing they have is money! Many of us tries to impress God on how much good deeds we do, having a great portfolio. Impress Him by how often we attend church, how much we are involved and how hard we work on missions.