You better believe people notice how many bridal showers, how many baby showers, how much aid to the sick, the care extended the dying, how much special support occurs in the congregation. You better believe that people take note when new families move in and automatically get involved with such activities when they have not even had time to get to know people. To be a loving, successful family is costly. Love often brings pain. Love always brings sacrifice.
Love always generates inconvenience.
Love always involves hard work. Love constantly demands that you consider those you love. What it adds to your life nothing else can give you. What it produces in the lives of others represents your greatest and most meaningful accomplishments. There are four certain ways to guarantee the church ceases to be the family of God.