COLONY — Brant McGhee gave the Communion Meditation at last week’s Colony Christian Church service, using a parable about cows getting loose from their pastures.
Normally, it’s easy to put them right back in because they tend to go back to the section of fence from which they escaped.
The problem really isn’t the fence, McGhee noted. Maybe the grass looks greener on the other side, or they just want to roam where they want.
But there is water inside the fence, there is food, and there is safety.
And just like his cows, we continually cross God’s fence, McGhee said.
Why? Maybe things look more exciting out in the world, or we feel too confined by his “fence.”
We can easily get out and be led astray. But God is always there to help round us up again, to mend the “fence” when we confess.
And the whole point of his sacrifice is so we can come back to him, McGhee said.
Hopefully the next time we are tempted, we’ll stay inside his fence where we belong. (Ref: 2 Chronicles 7:14 and 2 Peter 3:9)
Pastor Chase Riebel gave the sermon “Hope in the Resurrection” over Acts 23:1-7.
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Men’s Bible study is held at 7 o’clock Tuesday mornings in the church basement. Women’s Bible study follows at 8:30 in the parsonage.
The Mary & Martha’s life group meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The Men on Fire life group is held the second Friday of the month. Good News is at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays. The youth group for middle- and high-schoolers is at 6 p.m. Wednesdays, followed by adult Bible study in the parsonage at 7.
