It is 6:21am on Sunday and I have been woke up this morning by my Jesus who has pressed upon my heart some ‘words’ that I must share. To be perfectly honest I have a feeling these ‘words’ will step on some toes and also press upon some hearts. I have asked and He has said ‘go for it my daughter’.

I have been going to church for as long as I can remember. Now I didn’t grow up in what some would consider a ‘traditional Christian home’ for my parents didn’t go with my sister and I. But they felt it very important for us to go. So we did.

I have attended many different churches over the years, from loud vibrant and alive, to quiet traditional and dead churches. I have logged many hours sitting, singing, and listening. I have had more than one Sunday of not wanting to go to church. Whether it be because I was tired. Or because I knew my first baby would fall asleep on the way and then wake up when we got there needing to be fed and it would turn out to be more work to care for him at church then it would be if we just stayed home.

This morning I am thinking on the fact that Sunday, the day most consider ‘church day’ is just 1/7 of the week. This is where the Engineer perks up because I am including some math, fractions to boot! Now don’t get me wrong I have family and friends that attend church on other days of the week, so the point here is not really the day of the week, but that its one day of the week. And that is what is pressing hard right now on my mind and heart.

You see for some of us it’s just about going to church. You know like it’s a chore that needs to be completed each week. It rates right up there with grocery shopping or laundry.

I come very humbly this morning to say,

Really?

Honestly do you think that’s what it’s all about?

Getting dressed up as so many still do these days, grabbing your Bible and going and sitting on a pew and logging an hour each week.

I can hear God asking, ‘why bother because I can see your heart and it’s not in it’

Our Creator doesn’t want church attenders. He doesn’t.

He wants more than 1/7 of our days. And yet that is what so many of us give Him.

He doesn’t just want us occupying a building each week for one hour.

He wants more.

Not more hours logged inside the church.

And if I am hearing my Jesus right this morning, He would even trade our 1/7 if He could have the other 6/7.

I was not the best at fractions, but even I can see that one clearly.

What does He want from us?

Our hearts.

He wants a relationship with us. One in which communication takes place regularly. A relationship in which we are freely living in His love and grace and because of that the world around us is better.

What would it look like if we stopped ‘just’ going to church and lived like Jesus loved us?

What would our world look like if we gave up our 1/7 living?

Maybe people would know that Jesus loved them and that church people do more than just go to church 1 day out of the week.

Maybe our world would know that love is a real thing and it changes life’s.