We were having a long discussion about what church we wanted to go to. Really long. like three and a half months. What's the deal with that. I've been going to church my whole life. For a long time during my youth my dad was a pastor of multiple home churches, I've spent more time in church than Jesus. So what's with the discussion.
We've gone to a lot of kinds of church too. The little home churches with one guy playing guitar. The mega church with more people on stage than Arcade Fire. The church where everything sucks but the preaching and the preaching is so good it makes it all worth while. The church where you can't remember a single message but you never encounter a Sunday when you don't want to go.
So here we are again. What church to go to. And the bigger question now, the question we have never asked before, why?
This question has to be preempted by the idea that in our house we have already decided that going to church is important for a number of different reasons, so the discussion is not why go to church. The question is why go to THAT church.
Have you asked that question deeply about any number of things in your life?
1) Why call that place home?
2) Why go to work there?
3) Why spend time with those people?
4) Why do that workout?
5) Why eat that diet?
6) Why read that book?
7) Why discipline that behavior?
8) Why drive that car?
You are already going to live somewhere, go somewhere to work, drive something to that place, interact with your kids, eat food, watch tv and read books. All of those things are already going to happen tomorrow. Most of the way we go about it is just because that's what we've always done.
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