Going Fishing?

So at church Sunday, the wife of one of our leadership team came up to me and said that her husband would not be at church because he got the opportunity to go deep sea fishing. My answer was blah blah blah . . with the over tones of disdain that he wasn't with us.

As I was teasing her, the words spoken by our worship leader came to mind . . .in a recent teaching he spoke these words from a book that he was reading that went something like this.

Religion is sitting in church thinking about fishing . . .spirituality is sitting by a creek fishing and thinking about God.

We don't want to think that "the Church" would get in the way of our pursuit of God, and I'm not here to promote the de-churching of America, but I think, if we are not careful, we can allow the events of the church to be an obstacle of growth.

The challenge of church leadership is simply how we can create a climate were both would take place at the same time and at the same place

Have an Awesome Day

David