for my friend

A good friend of mine brought up an argument about how our church doesn't have a real shelter for singles - that it is all a farce to get single people married-off. He claimed that the church did not value single-people and that they didn't try to relate to singles where they are in life. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I don't know where this exactly plays into that argument, and maybe it doesn't at all, but I found something really interesting in my quiet time, today, and it made me think of him.

"My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that our faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's." 1 Corinthians 3:4-5

I hope that my friend sees that so many people care about him and that we do our best to show our love to him. However, it's not our actions, our message, our programming, our music nor our words that should give him ease - it is in the power and love of Christ. Nothing we do should be compared to what God can do in our hearts. I am not ducking responsibility for our church to start a better singles ministry and message series, but it isn't about that. It's about the Holy Spirit moving in such a way that we put all of our trust in God's hands. I am not arguing the point of which the church plays a vital role in our communities, but merely pointing out that it is dangerous to expect to be fed solely by the church.