Speed Dating
We are looking ahead right now at WRCC – that includes vision, mission, and purpose. The good news is that we do not need to come up with anything new – it’s already there. “Love God, Share Jesus, Serve Man.” The bad news is that this has been mostly overlooked and kept at a distance.
No more.
We are working through these aspects one by one, with this week’s focus on Love God. The question (and the reason I chose that title) we asked is this: How can we even think of falling in love with God if we only meet Him once a week?
Counting on church to be the sole contact for faith expression, worship, education, and intimacy with God is……well, it is a waste of time. That is not relationship building – that is speed dating. Hoping against hope to make a connection with someone you meet casually, quickly, and within a strict schedule. You are meeting at the same place, same time, same chair hoping for growth and relational development. It doesn’t work that way.
Yes, you may know all the songs. Yes, you may know all the sermons. Yes, you may be familiar with all the popular verses quoted in said sermons. No, this does not equate with actually knowing and loving God. It equates to going on ONE date to the same place for decades.
Church is not a good place to date. [That is a weird sentence that I never thought I’d write.] God never intended for church to be a place in which you get to know Him. Church is a place in which we acknowledge our need for Him; Where we offer our lives to Him; Where we are already familiar with Him and so we worship out of need not convenience.
Worship comes from a place of familiarity and intimacy. We cannot worship a god we do not know (see Paul at the Areopagus in Acts 17: 19 – 22). We can try and throw things towards Him and hope that it sticks. That is not worship. That is not relationship. That is consumerism, lazy theology, worship out of convenience not conviction.
He has given us so much more – we cannot be content offering back so little.
1 John 3:1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. (NLT)