None of us want to admit it but that question is almost always running in our heads, like those processes invisibly running when your computer is on.
Who can blame us? We’re measured from the moment we take our first breath. Your weight and length are usually known before your name and are always announced.
Measurements are important. They indicate all sorts of good things necessary to health, growth, and learning.
But measurements have to be based on comparison. And that is where we hurt ourselves. Making constant comparisons. Perhaps Jesus should have said, “Where two or more are gathered together, one will always better than the other.”
This Sunday at the Gathering Church, we look at a deadly example of comparison as we continue the message series, Living in God’s Story. Acts 4:32-5:11 contains one of the strangest stories in the Bible. A husband and wife drop dead when they are caught being deceitful about their finances.
What in the world is going on in the first church? It’s an incredible model of vitality and impact. It’s irresistible. But, suddenly it becomes deadly. At least to two of its members.
I have not heard many sermons on this passage? Have you?