SUNDAY SCHOOL PINS!

SUNDAY, February 17, 2019

SUNDAY SCHOOL PINS!

Heb 10:24-25

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

           Do any of you reading this even remember “Sunday school pins”? I wouldn’t blame you if you said no. These have gone the way of glass soda bottles. They are relics from the black and white past. I’m pretty sure Barny Fife had a string that hung down to his Sam Brown. (Some won’t know what that is either.)

           Sunday school pins are actually still available on Amazon for about five bucks for the Cross and Crown starter. Each year of perfect or “outstanding attendance”  a bar with the current year was added that would grow and grow into an impressive chest decoration. Attendance used to be important.

           What happened? Well, church changed from a family or a place where one belonged to a place where one occasionally visited. Churches began to cater to the absentees rather than reward the faithful. Incentives to attract the casual guests became more and more elaborate until churches resembled a nightclub, a circus, or a rodeo. The pins were cheaper and actually more properly focused.

           If heaven is not incentive enough to get you to church I doubt our church budget can afford to have you. If hell is not deterrent enough to bring you to church I doubt we could excite you enough to attend.

Ps 122:1

122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Dear Lord bless those who will faithfully attend and worship today. Bless also those who can not attend due to illness or circumstance. Speak to the heart of those who treat your meetings too casually. AMEN