What I Learned In Church 9-2

I don't owe anyone an explanation for my dedication to church but it may help someone come closer to God if I share my views. I attempted this with one atheist who must go unnamed because her life is in disarray and she is hiding from stalkers.

I was successful with another person. They tried to give me the “I’m spiritual. I don’t feel the need to go to church.”

I said I understood. I had been there myself. But my journey (And I say journey because we NEVER stop growing.) took me to a place of wanting to serve mankind. Being a business man, I know if you want to work, you must advertise. So I dress like an adult and I go to church. I study the bible. I don’t recite rhetoric. If and when people are looking for spiritual help, they know they can come to me because I advertise. I don’t go to church looking to receive anything anymore. I go to give. To, at least, learn to give better. To advertise my charity.
I go because I have learned to see God despite my environment. I don’t need the church to show me God anymore. I don’t need it to be Sunday in order to see God work. I see God in all my activities, in all my days. I don't go to church to get filled up anymore, I go to get emptied out. I am so blessed ALL 7 days. I can do nothing but give!

But I STILL get blessed on Sundays. Almost immediately after coming home to L.A., I was blessed to find a new church home. I even feel moved to become involved. I get to meet people. And not just people, I get to meet GOOD people. People like Vicki are the reason why I LOVE St. Agathas! I had the pleasure of sitting next to Vicki on Sunday for church and then running into her on Monday at the art festival. I take things like that as a sign of good people. I take being invited to walk the tithes down the aisle (totally random) as a sign of inclusiveness.

Why would I try to get anything, when I am given so much?

So that’s what I Learned in Church. It IS better to give. Just remember, giving is more than the action. It’s a perspective.