Living in a small town, meeting with its other pastors from week to week, you get to hear about folk who flow around town from church to church looking for something that suits them.
When I studied politics (back in the day) the term to describe someone who had ever voted for more than one political party was ‘promiscuous’.
Sometimes I wonder if that applies to some people’s church attendance patterns as well.
Nathan Bingham provides some counsel to those seeking a perfect church.
The post starts with this observation:
Do you believe there’s a perfect church (local congregation) somewhere here on earth?
If you do, you’ll likely find yourself in one of two mindsets:
- thinking you’ve found the perfect church in the particular congregation you’re a member of;
- or you’ll continually be on a restless journey trying to find it.
In both cases you’d be wrong.
He even includes this joke:
A man was stranded on a deserted Pacific island for years. Finally one day a boat comes sailing into view, and the man frantically waves and draws the skipper’s attention. The boat comes near the island and the sailor gets out and greets the stranded man.
After a while the sailor asks, “What are those three huts you have here?”
“Well, that’s my house there.”
“What’s that next hut?” asks the sailor.
“I built that hut to be my church.”
“What about the other hut?”
“Oh, that’s where I used to go to church.”
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