I just lost the original post so I hope this is as clear as the other one was.
Sometimes even churches that preach the church is the body’s of the people attending we sometimes forget or lose focus. I know that I have been guilty of that. When we remember that the church is its body and not some building certain things should happen as it did for us yesterday. I have always thought that testimonies were kind of hokie, and maybe a better word would sharing but yesterday we were reminded that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Usually Robbie is aware of something going on in someone’s life or will ask if anyone has something going on that they want to share, but this weekend was his turn. Robbie’s wife had a miscarriage last week. Things happen to Christian people too. There is pain that goes along with the good and as a body we need to share those. How does true community happen if we are not sharing what is going on in the body.
On a lighter note. We started a new series this week called Desperate Sex Lives. The audio will be available today on Beachside’s website and also on iTunes. But Robbie started out talking about the 4 love words in the Greek language. 3 are in the New Testament and one isn’t. Philo is a the greek word that means “brotherly love or love for a friend”, where Philadelphia the city of brotherly love comes from. To help people remember that kind of love we used the theme song to the show “Friends”. For Storge, the word for love for our family, we used “We are family”, you know the words so sing along, “we are family, I got all my sisters with me”. For Eros, the word not used in the New Testament, which means, got to have or conquering kind of love, a cheap substitute for real love we used, Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on”. This maybe the first time this song has ever been played in a church service. And for Agape, real love, the love God has for us and the love we should be displaying to others, the 1 Corinthians 13 love. For this kind of love Robbie lead into our singing by explaining that there isn’t a song for this kinda love but we can show through our song the song we sing to God as we praise him in worship.
