Sunday Reflections

This past Sunday was an exciting Sunday for our church for many reasons. I don't know about you but I don't buy the line that "Numbers don't matter." Numbers mean everything. At LMB Church our goal is not letting one slip through the cracks. That's a lofty goal, but numbers have everything to do with that. Each person that sets foot in our building is a person made in the image of God and confronted with the Gospel message. Well, we had 93 in Sunday School, a relatively large number for us, and that was missing many regulars. That means there were well over a hundred in the service. So a good 135 or more people had a chance to hear Jesus preached. Guess what happened that afternoon? 3 of our youth received Christ at a youth rally. That means we'll have 3 or 4 people under the age of 17 pass through the waters of baptism.. Do those numbers matter? Not if you're simply gauging statistics. But when it represents the salvation of 3 or 4 people remade in Jesus' image it matters the world. The number of those who don't come matter more. Don't be sucked into the "hyper-spiritual" "numbers don't matter" people.