Thanks for several private and/or face-to-face Comments on yesterday’s blog!

In case you missed it, scroll down one entry here to Don’t Let This Happen to Your Church. Like most of my what I try to do here, it’s intentionally a quick read.

The ending is where I want to point you today: Be active in your church is the first of two prescriptions from yesterday.

What does Be active in your church look like?

1. Be more than a consumer. Do more than being passively present in worship. Let the very word “worship” be a verb like it’s supposed to be.  Worship.

2. Commit to a small group or Sunday School class. If there’s not one already happening for someone like you, make an appointment and talk with your pastor about starting one…the shock to her/his heart will be healthy.

3. Pray more than you complain. We all have less time and energy than we pretend, so let’s spend ours productively. Talk with God more, and listen even more.

Those three steps will help prevent what happened to my friend’s home church in yesterday’s blog. Joni Mitchell was right when she sang, “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” Don’t let “gone” become a descriptor of your church.

Review today’s three steps, ask God for help in following through with all three, and share these three with someone else today.

As always, I look foward to hearing from you anytime.