Meals on Wheels

The drive-through window at your favorite eatery can be a useful convenience. If you are eating the right kind of food (believe it or not some healthful meals can be created in the fast food world) and are pushed for time, the “may-I-take-your-order” system can work for your advantage. The same is true when it comes to truth. There are various ways you can make of a meal of God’s Word. You can study the Bible in your own private world. This should be happening in the life of every Christian. Small group Bible studies offer the opportunity to hear God’s Word taught, ask questions, and encourage fellow believers. Special things happen in worship services of the local church. Corporate worship offers the church family a united experience in hearing and doing the eternal Word of truth. Believers can enjoy the opportunity to think about and act upon a particular passage of Scripture and grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ together.

But what if you have to miss the Sunday morning or Sunday evening service? May I suggest that you access the convenience of listening to the sermon on the internet, a C.D. or a tape. This will keep you up on what is happening in the congregational life of the church and nourish your own soul. Keep a supply of sermons on C.D. or tape in your automobile. Work out a system so that you can at least hear some exposition of the Bible during the week. This is an excellent way to redeem the time. Personally, I have listened to thousands of hours of Bible teaching in my truck when running errands, visiting someone in the hospital, and driving to my daughter’s house near Chattanooga. Beth and I have enriched our lives by attending Bible conferences while driving on the interstate to visit family and friends.

Last Sunday morning Justin preached on Matthew 5:27-30. It was an excellent treatment of a vital passage for dealing with lust and temptation. If you missed the message, get a tape or C.D. Listen to it and pass it on to someone else. Being there would have been good, but don’t let an absence go without some compensating action. Last Sunday evening the sermon was “Overcoming Depression.” Do you know how to think through in a biblical way the dark side of human experience? Some Christians have a better knowledge of the world’s interpretation of depression than what God has said. This should not be.

Our church, of course, is not the only source of Bible teaching. There are other excellent places where Bible truth is taught. When you find one of these, pass that information on to your friends. A network for recommended truth-meals is one way we blind beggars who have experienced God’s eye-opening grace can tell other blind beggars where food is to be found. In this way some of our car-time can be turned into meals on wheels.