Dear Chrieaster,
We love you. When you come through the door, our hearts rise that you have joined. You encourage us and we wish we could do the same for you.
We worry for you. When your prayer needs hit Facebook or our prayer chain, we lift them to God with the same intensity as our regulars. We wish you would enjoy the weekly support that we do. We ache for you to be able to give and take love, encouragement and support in the local family of believers. We wonder how your connection with God survives without the support of a local church group.
That brings us to another concern, what happens to you if we don't survive? We know you, pray for you. Will you be able to find another church family to care by Chrieastering? What will happen to your faith, if our prayer support is gone? Will you fall to discouragement as you drive by our closed building? We will join other healthy Christians as part of other fellowships. What will you do? You have enough understanding of Christ's teachings to draw you out for specials. You are often good folks and even leaders in the community. Will all that community involvement make you spiritually fulfilled and close to God?
Some say the reason people don't come to our little fellowship is because we are irrelevant. What if we need your ideas and insights to help us find relevance as well as spirituality? I suspect that's true. Our core people have learned to survive by clinging to God. We need folks with other perspectives to help us reach out.
To sum up, we love you, we support you and we need you. Sounds like a relationship worth building.
Pastor Ed
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