Well I want to talk a little bit today about the relationship we have to each other because I know for many of you this is a special place.

It's a shelter from the rest of your week, the world that's out there that you experience on a daily basis and you come together on Sunday and finally you're with people who share your love for the Lord and you don't always have that. Some of you are blessed to have that, but most of us probably don't in our places of employment or the places that we frequent and spend our time.

And I've noticed some trends and I don't know whether it fits this particular church exactly.

If it doesn't, though, I think it's still worth talking about because I think it's a

challenge that could be coming but I've seen it where I've traveled I've seen it

at my own church to some extent that I attend and it is this problem of being involved in each other's life.

Someone call it being a friend. It seems to me like there's less of that.

There's less, people are less involved in each other's lives and they used to be,

and I'm not that old, so Don can remember when people were really involved,

I'm sure, in each other's lives,

back when it was an agrarian community

and he needed to depend on each other for survival.

Well now, that's just not the case.

People don't feel as compelled to engage in

hospitality and this of course also affects the church and if we're not in each

other's lives on a regular basis we don't know each other if we don not in each other's lives on a regular basis, we don't know each other, if we don't

love each other, if we don't love each other, if we don't really have a church and then what are we doing?

Why do we even come together?

And so I'm not accusing this church of anything in particular. If anything

convicts you, then praise God and I'll just take that as the work of His spirit in your life.

I know I'm somewhat convicted of this myself and my wife and I we've talked not long ago I think last week about the possibility of doing more hospitality ourselves

Because we want to let the people in our lives that we know, we want them to know that we love them and we want to know them better so we can love them better.

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