The Old Landmark

If we want to save our landmarks, our churches, the gospel of Christ must be taken out of the sanctuary and given to the people all around us so we can lead them to the ultimate landmark, the cross. It is the path we walked and continue to walk going on to perfection in Christ Jesus but how many will we take with us on our journeys?

This is the question we must answer for ourselves. Church membership is a way for us to keep our congregations healthy, vibrant, and growing so that we can do the ministry we have been called to do but God doesn’t care about church membership in the whole scheme of things. Church membership will not save us. What God cares about is membership in his kingdom which WILL save us. God does not take attendance by who is on the pew beside us. God takes attendance by who is missing.

Look around us this morning and look to see pews filled today and try to imagine this every Sunday. Remember our fellowship dinners and holiday programs and the numbers of people who attend them. How many of them are attending church anywhere on a regular basis? Look to see the members that are missing and determine in your hearts to reach out to them in love and invite them back to worship in God’s house. Think of those people that live around us that do not attend church anywhere any more and reach out to them.

The greatest mission we have is to bring others to the knowledge of the God we love and serve taking as many as we can with us on the journey. Let us all go back to the OLD LANDMARK. Let us all spend quality time in the presence of God Almighty, block out the world and our daily lives for these precious moments with God, speak to him, ask him what he requires of us, wait for him to speak to us, and then be obedient to God’s command.

Let us take the bread of life, the scriptures, within us on a regular, daily basis, and partner with God in building our church and the kingdom by reaching out to the missing and the lost. Let us lay up treasures for ourselves in Heaven where moth and dust does not corrupt so we may cast our crowns at the feet of Jesus Christ when we see him face to face…..and hear those precious words, “well done thy good and faithful servant…enter into the Joy of the Lord!”.