Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

I have noticed that a lot of Christians have been giving excuses one after another to get out of attending bible studies, church duties and fellowship opportunities. I would know about this topic because I use to give excuses for not wanting to go to a get-together with other members in the past. It seems that after I “sucked it up” and just did it I realized that I had been wasting my time giving excuses in the past. Of course there are times when you may not feel well or have other obligations, but for those times when you have nothing constructive to do or just don’t want to be around certain people, you have to just go anyway or find another church fellowship. It shouldn’t be a constant fight with yourself to decide to go to your church’s bible study every such and such day or to get up and go to Sunday service every week.

We all need some consistency in our lives, being sporadic prevent us from receiving whatever God wants to give us on a regular basis. We can’t be hopping from one church to another because we didn’t feel like driving out that far or don’t want to listen to that kind of worship music anymore.

Stop being picky! It’s one thing to move to a new church if you feel or know that the word that is going forth is not of God or if there is a lack of Biblical behavior going on, but it’s another thing when you leave because you don’t like so and so, don’t care for the worship music, don’t want to make the time to go there or feel like it doesn’t matter if you don’t stay put anywhere. 

Over the past year I have watched people come in and out of the church in such a short period of time. Sometimes I would wonder “Why do they come and express their enjoyment, cry tears of happiness, get healed and then walk away?” After a few comings and goings, I stopped worrying over it. It took a few months, however, by the beginning of this past September I have realized that it’s nothing to worry over. People come and people go, it’s up to them to realize that they are slipping up for not staying put for any season and instead hop around drifting with the wind to wherever it takes them.

Many of the excuses I have heard usually involve the reasons why they need to stay at that specific church, such as, “I won’t be coming back because my son or daughter is in the hospital” or “My parents go to this other church”…when days earlier they have mentioned that their parents weren’t being fed the word or weren’t getting the opportunity to use their gifting…These very excuses I have heard a few times now and yet we have to realize that some of our reasons for leaving a church, unless the Holy Spirit has told us, is the very reason why we need to stay put and pray, worship, get the word from the Pastor and be around other Christians who can give you that extra support to get through whatever rough patch you’re going through. 

There are excuses for stepping out of their church positions, such as leadership roles. Some Christians don’t want to make any sacrifices in their schedules to plan something for the church or do outreach activities, yet they were eager to take on those leadership roles. If you are caught in a leadership role that you did not want, felt that it was not your calling, or tried fulfilling the role but realized that you could not do the role justice, just let the Pastor know. Do not run away or give excuses for why you can’t do it, just be honest with yourself and others, because the Lord knows why you detached from the situation. 

To be continued……………