The church of Christ

at Rogersville

This Week's Message

Church Family

How do you define your “church family?” I have fond memories as a child of my church family. The folks we attended church with were an integral part of our lives. We shared time with them not only on Sunday and Wednesday but just about every day. I can remember during the long summer days the ladies of the church getting together to help each other or just spend time together and us children playing for hours together as well. I can also remember the men doing the same thing after a long day at work. We had that common bond of mutual love, desire, and commitment to encourage and help our church family. To my parents, our church family was a priority in their lives. It ranked pretty much right after God. When things were tough we leaned on our church family. When things were good we shared with our church family. Basically, our church family was just as important to us as our immediate blood family. Get the picture? What has happened to the “church family” today? Where is that connection that I remember as being a blessing to my life? Has that blessing gone because we have filled our lives with too much “stuff” that really doesn’t matter? Have we become so selfish with our time we have forgotten one of our greatest treasures and that is our “church family?” Probably so, I know we do. There is a book called, “When the Church was a Family”. It lists three things about church family.

1. Group comes first…don’t be selfish.
2. It is all about family.
3. I am my brother’s keeper.