The Noblest of a Father's Goals

Several years ago, Phillips, Craig and Dean wrote a song for each of their children...This Song, called "Lord I Wanna Be Just Like You," is carved out of the desire of every parent to be a great role model for their children. The older I get, the more I reflect, and the more that I reflect, the more I see Christ in my father, mother, grandmothers and grandfathers...It is the noblest of all goals as a parent to reflect Christ to your children so they will then model Christ in return..."Lord I [the father] wanna be just like You [The Father] so he [my son] can be just like me!"

Well...It has been another while!

I have got to get better at maintaining this BLOG!!! Anyway, there you have it! Sunday was a great day at North Davis. We took the whole worship time to gather around the table, sharing in Christ's body and blood communally the Lord's supper. I think too often in Churches of Christ we have lost sight of what Communion is all about. As my senior Minister said, "we have made it the Lord's snack...we have ritualized, privatized, and trivialized, Americanized, industrialized," and another -ized word that I forgot, "what was the most important meal to the early Christian community." We need to recover that sense of community that early Christians shared when they took the Supper together. Yesterday at the close of our worship time we sang a song called "We Are the Body of Christ," and a gentleman came up to me at the conclusion and said that he had never felt this type of unifying activity done at this church before. That is a powerful statement, both for the positive and for the negative. ON one hand, we have hurt ourselves in the past by not doing worship as an act of unification of the worshipping body. On the other hand, we are beginning to recognize community-forming activities as a vital part of the worshipping church. May God bless us as we draw closer to one another, and as we draw closer to him!!