How are you?

‎I haven't been going to church for a while because of a personal problem. When i came back, I expected you to say "Hey, what happened, are you okay? I haven't seen you for awhile", but rather you said, "Hey, you haven't been going to church, go back okay?"

Imagine going to church with a heavy heart, wanting to hear empathy from people you thought who are close with God, who are sensitive to His voice, who are spiritually matured to comfort and give spiritual advice and all of a sudden all you get is a “Go back to church okay?”

How insensitive.

You want to run to God but you don’t exactly know how to. So you go to church to receive wisdom or a prayer at least; but no. What you got was a slap on the face. “Go back to church okay?” It’s as if saying “Hey I want you to stay in church, but right now I really don’t have time to listen to you, whatever you’re facing let the church help you, go to the pastors, that’s their job. My job is to make you stay here.”

So is church all just about the numbers of people who go in? Yes it’s true that people go to church to receive wisdom from the message of the pastor, but there are people who need something more than that. They need encouragement, they need someone to care, and they need a lending ear. What is the essence of church now a day? Is it just plain about the pulpit and the performances and the flow of the program? Then when church is over, Christianity is over as well??

Yes it is the pastor’s duty to help those who are in need spiritually; but the pastors can’t do it alone! You are a member of that church because you are there to support the pastors! What is so hard about asking someone “How are you?” what is so hard about listening to someone’s burdens for a couple of minutes and pray for them? Every single person in this world holds a burden; what is so hard about caring for them for a few minutes? A single “How are you” could actually enlighten them. Just to know that someone cares is good enough. What is more fulfilling than making someone happy or at peace?

And oh by the way, the last sentence on the first paragraph? I was the one who said that.