I have been out of the blogosphere for a while with some fairly serious eye surgery — but I finally got back, and read this… Great post — Being a Messianic pastor, I have tried to instill in my congregation the concept of ‘community’ that I always relished in my Jewish community. You are right on the money — my eye surgery required that I sit, or lie face-down for a month — and during that time I had friends come by and just talk/visit, or read to me, for hours at a time. I began to realize how rare it was that I TRULY visit with friends… Maybe God was preparing me to read your post!

I missed reading your insights for the past 5 weeks… Glad to be back…

I’m curious what you (or other CS readers) think about a recent series I did about how Satan robs the American Church of its time (as well as treasure, talent, and testimony).

Satan simply needs to get us all wrapped up in this present, dark age, and we’re useless in the true Kingdom. He keeps our possessions and treasures wrapped up in meaningless “stuff”, then takes our time away as we try to keep that “stuff”, and when life has come and gone, we realize we have nothing invested in God’s Kingdom.

Good posts… I’d love to see some Americans start to unravel the web we’re caught in and refocus on truly important tasks.