Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God. Josh 23:11 (ASV)

I am reading a book Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris, and I felt that it relates to this as well… I am a biker at heart and there are many things that I enjoy about the motorcycle world, but one of the biggest things is that when you belong to a group you belong…

I have some very close friends that belong to a veteran motorcycle group, and I dont see them often, but when I do they treat me like family, you dont find this kind of brotherhood in any other group of people including the church…

Yes when we accpet the love of Jesus into our lives, and we become saved by the blood he shed that day on the cross we became part of the body of Christ… We are to turn away from our old lives and live this new one…

Honestly I feel like an outcast with in my own church, Most people shy away from me, the pastor has approached me once in the last year, and that was to make a comment about the fact that I was wearing a tie…

I attend a mens group, and we are closer then most, but even this falls very short of what I feel when I see the guys from this motorcycle group, no matter what I wear, what I do for work, no matter what I am accepted as part of the group…

But it goes much deeper then this… If something is wrong, these guys are the first ones there, on my wedding day, they were coming down from new york to be here to support me… one of the bikes broke down, they did everything they could to get here, I am sure it cost them alot of money, they never gave up, when they arrived near the end of the reception I felt honored at what they had done to get there for Lori and I…

Yes I love God, but I am not changing who I am so you will accept me, God never asked for that why should you…. I am longing to be part of that small core group of believers that I can call my core group, so that when people look at us they see something different about us, just like they do when they see a pack of bikers wearing the same patch they may not be able to explain it, but they know there is a brotherhood there they do want to challenge but long to have in their own life…

I want the same thing within the church, I want a group of people that when the world sees us, they see a brotherhood they dont want to challenge, and a love that pours out from God through us for them to join…

Many say the motorcycle gangs are just plain bad people, but one thing you can not deny, is that the love they have for each other is so strong that they would lay down their lives for one another… Should we as a church be the same way???

I have gone to the same church off an on for years, and still now, unless you are part of the click group of two families you are an outsider, you can accept the Lord, you can be a member, but remember your place… or be treated as an outcast…

Many people ask why I still go there, and that is simple, they teach the Word of God…

Now many people will ask, what are you going to do about this, and I think to start I am going to print this out and pass it out to my mens group… I am going to work on developing that small group of people that when we are together people will see the love of God pouring out from us… I am going to take the time to invite each one of them and their wives over for dinner so that my wife and I can get to know them better… Finally I am going to pray to God that I can start a “CLUB” to become a light with in our church…

Glory Glory Glory is the Lord God Almighty

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