The enemy in the Church

It has come to my knowledge of a enemy lurking inside the church doors. The members believed it to be harmless  and maybe even helpful. However as time went by it did what the enemy always intends to do and that was to keep the people away from being feed by the Father Almighty.  This enemy causes fights among the people of the church if it is not  present every Sunday unlike if a  bible study is missed or not even offered.  This enemy creates a place for brother and sisters to socialize but with the evil temptation becomes a place of gossip.  Have we given up the opportunity to be fed by our Father for a cup a coffee.  Yes I said it, the enemy is using the simple taste of coffee to tempt Christ followers away from his life giving Word for the all important christian fellowship of coffee hour.  Has our churches become the new hang out on Sunday mornings for that great cup of joe instead of the most important knowledge of Christ.  We as a church need to reevaluated this wonderful yet possibly harmful tradition.  Question that we might want to ponder to see if we came to chruch for coffee or Christ.

1. Can you remember anything you learned in confirmation
2. How many Commandments were there again
3. Sunday is always there for forgiveness
4. I  know  Christ did something for me but I cant remember what.
5. I don't understand why my kid saying "Why do I have to go to Sunday School you don't""
6. It is not really the True Body and True Blood
7. Hurry we need to get him baptized so he/she is a good little child.
8. I do too have a choice.
9. Confession what are those?
10. Book of Concord????????

God wants us to fellowship and coffee is a wonderful way for brothers and sisters to do so. But lets not forget why we go to church.  We are part of the Church of God and we go to church so Christ can feed us with his Word, and with his Sacraments.  Let us not take this lightly, lets be glad to understand more about why, Christ died on the cross for us. To many of our church members cannot defend our Savior and what he did for us and mostly because our sinful nature tells us we don't need to know that anymore. Lets get
up from the coffee table with coffee in hand and head to the nearest bible study and learn how sinful we really are and learn of the righteousness given to us freely in the the waters of baptism so we can enjoy that wonderful cup of coffee knowing we are a new man in Christ.