United We Stand

hey everybody. this is a newsletter insert from church that will be sent out tonight to our church. its a little risky. but hey i am the youth pastor, i am supposed to do stupid stuff.


This Sunday, I was frustrated as a teen walked
up to me and said they handed the “Community Night” sheet to someone who took one step, laid the paper on the pew, and walked off with no care. What hurts me is not that this person probably will not attend “Community Night” but that the teen had to see that this person did not care, nor support, what was going on in the church.

What is your attitude towards the church? How do you portray your attitude about the church to others? Is it a place where we seek our own desires, or is it a place where we unite with others for the same purpose? Is it a place we come and check it off the list of things that we need to do, or is it a place that you desire to be so you can lift up praises to Jesus Christ? Is it a time where you can catch up with friends, or is it a place that you can experience true fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ?

Did Christ go through His horrible death on the cross for a church that would be divided? On Sunday, I heard that division means two visions. I think we have two visions. One is that “these people are hard to please.” I have heard this statement from about fifteen to twenty individuals within the church. Who are “these people” that everyone keeps talking about?
Then I realized that we need to come together as a congregation and create more unity. It is not about “these people.” It is about the whole congregation. Not singling out one person over another. People want responsibility to make decisions, but then when something bad happens they want to blame someone else.

Another word for unity can be harmony. What would happen if one of the people in a singing group decided to sing a different part without telling the group, or if someone else decided they did not like the words to the song so on Sunday in front of the congregation sang different words? It would not sound nearly as good as if they had perfect harmony. When a group has harmony they become one on all the different parts. They help each other out and compliment each other.

People, this is a cry for help. We are not united as a church. We are not creating harmony as a church. We need to help each other, build each other up, and compliment each other as a church. If we are not, “Divided we fall.”