Go To Church!

I’ve heard it said, “If you wanna be a Saint, you’ve gotta live among the sinners.” 
~ Ned Flanders 
(I hope I got that quote correct.)

Jesus didn’t come to earth and live a peaceful life, then say, ‘I’m wonderful, follow me.’  He lived perfectly through persecution, and that’s what made him a begotten. 

Job stands tall because he remained righteous through all the trials that were heaped upon him. 

So, if we want to be Saints, all we need to do is be perfect, loving and forgiving everyone, no matter what any other nut case at church does.  The bigger the trials, the brighter the jewels in the crown. 

How much respect would there be for a heavenly being who says, ‘I didn’t go to church, because dealing with others was too hard, so I stayed home and was perfect all by myself’?  Jesus certainly didn’t! 

There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—
And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated.

If we want the results, we have to put in the work. 

Church is a great place to go.  It is an amazing organization that provides an opportunity to work out our salvation.  Church provides a great place for us to work on all those things that Jesus told us to work on, like the beatitudes.  Where else, but at church, can we find such an eclectic and dogmatic array of characters, often including our own, to provide the opportunity for us to actually live and conquer the beatitudes?  After all, if we don’t acquire the beatitudes for ourselves, then we don’t get the attached blessing.  So, if we want the blessings of being the children of God in heaven, then let’s go to church and personify the beatitudes! 

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