Are we churching or changing?

Those loud celebrations you heard recently weren’t necessarily coming from your local schoolyard. This belle’s off-season has also arrived, and I whooped it up when I finally unpacked my suitcase. I adore helping us women feast our hungry souls on Jesus through humor and storytelling, but I’ve learned just how much I need to rest and recharge. Feel free to contact me to get something on the books any time after September. I’ll get back to you when I’m not on the lake, tubing with the grands, visiting my parents, pranking with the bestie, or enjoying a late evening float boat ride with the beloved farmer and our canine terrorists.

This season will also be a time to seek the Lord for direction on my ministry and my life. I’m not interested in going through the motions, and the older I get, the more I realize we’re all prone to staying in our roads, or our ruts, whichever the case may be because change always requires something of us, and it’s often more than we care to give. And now I’m talking about our faith journeys.

2^nd Corinthians 3:18 says we’re transformed, or changed, by beholding the glory of the Lord. This past year, I often read to my audience from a list I compiled to help us decide if we were answering that call. Without fail, someone always wanted a copy of the list. It went like this:

If our testimony is always what God did and never what He is doing, we might be churching, but we aren’t changing.

If we’re content being served God’s word without feeding ourselves we may be churching, but we won’t be changing.

If we rely on the grace of Christ to cover our sins but we don’t rely on the power of His grace to quit sinning, we might be churching, but we aren’t changing.

If the only time we worship is when we’re gathered with other believers, we may be churching, but we aren’t changing.

I have more but for those with ears to hear, we’ve heard enough to ask ourselves the big question. Are we churching, or are we changing?

Hugs, Shellie