"Playing Church"

Our boys love to "play church". This is not something that began when Ron became a Pastor, but rather they began this several years ago. One of the boys (usually Ronnie or Nathaniel) will give the sermon, which means they will tell a Bible story that they know well, usually Jonah or Dave and Goliath. Then there will be a song leader. They will sing, take an offering, pray and occasionally they will have communion. As you can tell from the picture below, they have a great time "playing church". I'm not sure where the band concept came from as neither of our churches have a band, but they are so cute.

While they are adorable at playing church, it is not so cute when we as adults "play church". I think more and more in our society people are simply going through the motions with their Christianity. Thankfully, I am not the judge, but I am also not willing to gamble with the idea that I can just skimp by on my relationship with Jesus. I'm afraid that too many "Christians" now days think that as long as they show up at church on Sunday morning and go through the motions for an hour then they can live however they desire the rest of the week. As Christians we are called to be Holy, or set apart. We are not like the rest of the world. We are set apart for Jesus! We are called to not just go through the motions of Christianity, but live Holy lives.

As we train the boys to be set apart, our prayer is that the Lord will call each one of them into a deeper relationship with Him in which they can daily walk closer to Jesus and develop meaningful relationships with Him!