1.    Have you ever gone away, for example, on a vacation, and when you returned no one in your church family noticed you had been gone?

2.    Do you feel like no one ever tries to find out about you or your family?

3.    Ever feel like you have the “family name”, but aren’t a real part of the family?

4.    Would you say your feelings toward your church involvement is like this analogy: “I’m only important at tax time” – when they want my time or money”

Hopefully, none of these concerns have happened to you. But if it has, let me ask you this:
Have you done anything personally to counter these feelings?
Have you done anything to keep your brother and/or sister in Christ from feeling that way?

Think about it. Is there someone you haven’t seen at church for a couple of weeks? Couple of months? Longer?

Have you been concerned enough to try and find out where they are or why they aren’t there.

If we are to be like the first century church, we need to be about each other. If we take care of our church family, brothers and sisters, we will have little to take care of in ourselves…one of our brothers or sisters will be helping take care of us!

Rom 12:10-13…Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Col 3:13-15…bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. And beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.