Today is a good day--it is raining and has been raining since yesterday afternoon--thank you, Lord!
We met for the first time today for Ladies Bible Class for this semester --We will be studying Living Your Life as a Beautiful Offering by Angela Thomas who lives just down the road in Knoxville.
At a leaders' meeting last week we were discussing the apparent drop in interest for this class. In a church where there is a rather large pool of women who do not have to work outside the home, there seem to be fewer and fewer attending.
Despite all the best efforts of the planning committe to have a truly interactive and relevant class, fewer women signed up. And even fewer stay the course to the end of the semester. Free child-care is provided, so that is no problem.
Are our lives too busy to study and and live a closer walk with God? Do we already know everything we need to know? I know a church that is declining which once thought that. I would really like to know why. I realize culture has changed many of our commitments, but one can only spend so much time watching TV, cell-phoning and I-Poding. Hmmmm.
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