Pass It On

Already this year I've had a couple of messages from people saying how they appreciate this blog, the posts I write are often relevant to their days and they enjoy the songs I select week on week. This got me thinking...

Sitting in church this morning I find it sometimes difficult to become a sponge, to gather teaching and then take it with me into my week. Even more so to perhaps remember stuff to say on here. When in sermons I listen and the words the preacher is saying trigger other ideas within in my brain about things I can delve further into or maybe discuss at house group. But walking out the door I so often forget those gems of ideas. A simple way of overcoming that - taking a pen and notebook into church with me.

I got the image of a canal this morning. With the locks being individual people passing the reading or word of the Lord on. That's on a one to one basis. It's great to take specific bits of information from church, whether it's about basic Christian teachings or an individual passage and pass it onto a friend. Why not be like the tower of champagne glasses though? Why can we not fill up on the Lord's word, his entire message, the 'good news' as people often call it, and then let it cascade down into other people, eventually filling up the lives of loads of others? Individual passages are fantastic, but the fact He is there, He can be in your life and wants to be walking beside you is what we should really be passing on.