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Michael
 During my life, Jesus has stood at the door and
knocked…and knocked…and knocked again.
Even the times that I opened the door and let
him in, I soon drifted away because I didn’t
have any spiritual support system to help keep
me growing, or even stable, in my new
relationship with Jesus. Several times He
tried, finally He sent me two boys to care for.
I figured kids needed to go to church to help
them learn about Jesus, right from wrong, and
for some socialization with kids their age.
So we went to where I went when I was growing
up; my grand-dad had been a preacher there.
I got nothing out of the service; it was just an
hour of free baby-sitting for me, quiet time.
Then the children’s director said my boys were
too hyper and I needed to be a teacher if they
were going to continue coming to Sunday school.
She said, “Where do you think Sunday school
teachers come from!?” So we stopped going
to church.
Then about two months later, my friend, Bonnie,
started telling me about a new church that she
was going to. She didn’t stop, she said
it was perfect for me and the boys; we would fit
right in and love it. We went, just
because I wanted to shut her up. I was
very disenchanted with churches right now, and
this church met in a school auditorium on Sunday
mornings. But when the pastors spoke, I
understood what they were talking about; it
actually made sense in a practical way that I
could put into action in my daily life.
That was in 1998 and we’re still here, praise
God!
To sum up my ramblings, I think people need a
spiritual support system where we can express
what we're thinking, and to be around people
that speak in a way we can understand and will
help guide us along the right path with wisdom,
understanding, and love.
I told the preacher at my old church that we
were going to Heartland now and that we really
liked it and we got it when they spoke. He
said, “That’s why God has a church on every
corner, you gotta find one that
fits.”
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