day no. 15,088: every church is like a little Eden

Revelation 21:22-27
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Every Sunday when we load into the Kraken, we recite our marching orders for the morning...

Q: Where are we going?
A: to church

Q: And why do we go to church?
A: to worship our God with our people

Every church is like a little Eden, a garden in a vast wilderness, a place where God says, "Yes" everywhere you look and the "No's" are so small in number you'd have to search for them.

Sundays are practice for the new earth. Church is a place where we stand in God's presence, sit under His Word, sing His praises, feast in His presence, proclaim what's He done and express our gratitude. This is merely a pattern of what we will be doing forever.

Every church is a world within a world, a new earth planted inside the old earth. A tame little place of peace inside a wild world of warfare.

Church is a place to receive rations in order to return to the battlefield refreshed and reminded of what we're fighting for and how to fight in the meantime.