Does God Care About Church Pt. 2

Does God Care... About Church? Pt.2
Odd couples - do you know any? You know, the young classy wife married to the loud red-neck with Jr. Hi. humor, or the heavy, smelly bride married to the tall, emaciated, perfume salesman. It just seems odd. I mean, sometimes it's not even about money.

And then there's The Bible Story. The richest, most powerful, all-knowing God in the universe caring about... red-neck us. If He truly loves us, can He really be that smart? Is that an oxymoron in a sentence? Does He have lousy taste?

We are an odd couple - us the lucky smelly bride with the Perfect Husband. Then He died so we would no longer stink Eph 5:25-27. Maybe He knows more about what you can become than you do.

Such a deal.

And it's not only about God and us, it's about us and each other.

Eph 5:25 (NLT) For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.

Dan

Thought of the week: "Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" 2 Cor. 5:17