Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Four

I recently came upon a blog from a local pastor called from the greener side .

I am one who always has believed things happen for a reason.....

If I'm late b/c of traffic, God was protecting me from something....

if I clicked on a blog that I've never read before,

God wanted me to read what was on there! My friend Lauren

is quite fond of this fellow....and he sounds wonderful!

So I read this POST . WOW, it really touched me! That's a lot of

people that don't attend church! What's scary is that my family

includes 4 of them :( We haven't been to church in a few months.

There are several "excuses" or reasons we could blame for why....

but I don't think anyone really wants to hear them.

We attended a few local churches and had a great time!

There really wasn't anything wrong with the

churches we attended, infact I plan to go back!

It's just the scary parts of finding a "new" church.

Will we fit in?

Will people wonder why we're here?

Will I mess up and do something wrong?

Will the kids like it?

All these things run through my head. But what I need to just

realize is that I'm not there for the people, I'm there for Him!

That's much easier said than done, trust me!

Here's PART 2 from the

"Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Four" post.

We all need to step out of our comfort zone and

share the love of Jesus Christ.

Like Seth says,

"If we are going to reach the 4734 in our community,

we are going to have to make the investments in them.

We are going to have to hang out with people we would

never hang out with before. We are going to have to go above

and beyond. We are going to have to love “Betty” as if she

were our daughter, sister, mother, and friend. Because we know that

the only way for Betty to truly break cycle that she is in,

is Jesus Christ."