Just to be clear, a mega-church is a congregation of 3000 plus members that worships probably 2000 people each Sunday. Thank you that we are pure and clean and just the right size for a community of faith. What these churches have to say about hospitality is very important. For example, I think that it s highly unlikely that you ll ever hear from this pulpit a series of sermons on how to improve your financial situation, much less how to make your marriage sizzle, or even what to do with the ashes once the fire has burned out. You re not likely to hear this stuff, not because there s not an interest in those things, but rather because it seems to me that scripture tells us a different story.
Scripture seems surprisingly uninterested in self-improvement.
The only people who seem to be healed in scripture are those who are very sick like the women who bled for twelve years or those possessed with demons. The only ones raised are those who are quite dead. A couple of years ago, my father was in town visiting. And without hesitating, he replied, Sure. You see, he knows that we know that he knows he s not a fix-it guy around the house.