What'd I forget

I believe that we can all identify with the feeling, or perhaps frustration, of walking into a room on a mission to retrieve something.  Only to arrive and discover that we have totally neglected to bring with us the ability to recall that which we were in route to.  It is at this moment that while simultaneously swallowing a humble pill we criticize ourselves in an effort to rattle from the fog that is our brain some slight recollection as to why we left the big comfy couch in the first place.  This time of memory stimulation and brain rattling is often limited to only this endeavor.  My provocation for writing this is that we have long forgotten the virtues that have made the church what it is today.  We have misplaced: honor, integrity, loyalty, purity, and gratitude.  These virtues have taken a back seat to such things as comfort, compromise, and ultimately confusion.  We allowed ourselves to slowly, albeit steadily, distance ourselves from such things that require sacrifice and discipline in their practice.  Over the course of the rest of our series, Forgotten Virtues, our hope is that we will be once again be exposed to the virtues that can once again build a backbone in our community that God can use to communicate His grace.  Join us for this series as we remember the “Forgotten Virtues.”  Together we will remember what we came here for.