Why go to Church?

A Church goer wrote a
letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that
it made no sense to go to church every Sunday... "I've gone for 30 years
now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like=203,000
sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.
So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by
giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in
the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It
went on for weeks until someone wrote this
clincher:

"I've been
married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000
meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a
single one of those meals. But I do know
this... They all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife
had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise,
if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead
today!" When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something! Faith sees
the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank
God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!