What I have noticed lately, especially in the last 5 years, is that one of the greatest issues facing many families is all the good stuff they are doing. Spending time with family on one, two and even three vacations, along with several "get aways" in order to build up and have a good family time building memories. Then there is all the good that comes with all sports. It's not just baseball, basketball, and football anymore, oh no, we have so much more good stuff to do. Now we have soccer, cheer-leading, gymnastics, karate, swimming, and on and on I could go. There is never a break between any of them and they probably even overlap in most cases. There is no longer just a couple of channels on TV, there is now so many good channels and good movies that are good and wholesome for the whole family to watch no matter what time they come on because we can always watch them no matter what time, we've got DVR's!
Right now most of you think you know where I might be going, right? This of course leaves no time for the church. But hold on a minute because the church has followed the culture and now you can go online and look at what church offers the most good stuff for your family. They have ministries for this and ministries for that, they have sports ministries, and exercise ministries, and video ministry and on and on we could go.
All of this stuff if good! Don't we believe that more is always good? The problem, as I see it, is that we are so consumed with the good that we have not had time to even contemplate and ask the question "What is best?
That's the question that I leave you with. Oops, one more
