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terry lay

one of my favorite places to go to church

  • As I sit here on Sunday all alone, thinking everybody's gone to church. I've been invited but I declined. I was told, oh but you need to go to church every Sunday to be with God. I politely declined, and apologized for my obstenance.They said,but if you don't come and repent of your sins you're gonna go to hell.I thought,to myself, should I tell them? I be with the Lord off and on every day, and all day on Sundays, no matter where I'm at. While I'm with him, I'm seeing my sins [mistakes], and I'm learning why I committed [made] them. When I learn that, I fix it in my thoughts and actions. There by,knowing my sins, have repented wholely. I was raised southern baptist. I went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not. I witnessed many sins, I was taught by the Bible not to commit, being committed right and left. By the very people who taught me. The brow beating, brown nosing, jockying for rightiouness that went on, shunned me from the church. I thought of Jesus, when he went to church, and was asked to speak. He spoke his words on the texts, and was ejected from the church. I've seen grand business deals go down in church, even involving the offering plate. Again I think of Jesus! I can recollect only one time of him getting mad. That was when He found the people trading and doing business in the temple. He went irate. However, I'm seeing a possible healing of the Curch going on, that might not scare people away. But then I thought,no, they don't want to here that, they'll be late for church. So I just said, maybe next Sunday. God bless ya, as they left me peering out of the corner of their eyes.

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