He called on Saturday night, obviously well inebriated and saying, "I need your help, and I'm coming to church tomorrow." We talked for a while, I asked if he wanted a ride to church, and he said, "No, I can walk." The last thing I heard him say as hung up the phone was, "Every step is a half a mile."
How true. When it is time to go back to church, the Enemy will make every step seem like half a mile. Amy, now the children's pastor at our church, tells of the times before she was converted. On several occasions, I had invited her to church, and on several occasions she had siad she would come. What I did not know was that on several Sunday mornings she actually left her apartment, walked right up to the door of the church, but could not find the strength to open the door and come in. Every step is half a mile.
As caring Christians. maybe a good part of our job is simply to help shorten the walk.
