Stand By Me

Today, in worship, we continued our sermon series "Breaking the Chains: Learning to Live in Healthy Relationships." Today, we talked about my least favorite subject, when the church hurts. In a perfect world, the church would only be a source of healing and redemption in the world. But, ours is not a perfect world, and sometimes the church hurts. Jesus warned against the leaven - the yeast - of the Pharisees and Sadducees. I take that to mean the tendency in religious people to be self-righteous and judgmental. The service was wonderful today. The music from the praise band was outstanding. At the end of the sermon, I played a video that someone turned me onto. It is the song "Stand By Me" sung and played by people from all around the world. To me, it is a wonderful image of what the church can be. Enjoy. http://tinyurl. com/clxyfd