When things go missing we seldom notice until we need them.  Probably the most common thing in our life time is our set of keys.  If we lose our cell phone it is easier to find, we can call the number and listen for the ring.  Even if it has been stolen it has a GPS locator that may find it.  We often see people wandering a store parking lot trying to remember where they parked.  What if something is missing that we have never had?  This message is about that very thing.

   This age has become a sharp contrast from 1867 where the fastest transportation was a horse.  Roads outside of big cities were all dirt and 92% of all people lived on farms.  Back then many believers met any where they could and were glad to have even a Brush Arbor for shelter during a meeting.  With our padded pews, audio & video systems, full time pastors and facilities that include coffee shops, gymnasiums, and every other convince available to draw people in and keep them coming, good members get frustrated and go “church shopping” or worse get real burnout  and quit trying altogether.

   In Revelation Chapter 3: 6; John wrote to us about the future; “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. And in verse 17; ”John wrote about the last of seven Churches in the last days and said:  “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:”

   We don’t think that those verses could be referring to us because the need is something we never had, so it’s impossible to miss.  In a conversation a man commented that he was extremely worried about the lack of rain; to which another man replied, I don’t because I have a sprinkler system.  We don’t have as much need for his help as those before us did.

   What has happened is that believers have replaced the need for God with wealth, doctors, electricity, modern science, so on and so forth.  It is only when these fail us that we get serious because we may lose their benefit.   

   There is definitely something missing in our modern church age but it is like a person who has cancer but doesn’t know it, so they continue with their lives until something happens to get their attention.  This message is that wakeup call from the speakers personal experience.

There was an object lesson as follows: What is missing from this CH   CH?

:  When things go missing we seldom notice until we need them.  Probably the most common thing in our life time is our set of keys.  If we lose our cell phone it is easier to find, we can call the number and listen for the ring.  Even if it has been stolen it has a GPS locator that may find it.  We often see people wandering a store parking lot trying to remember where they parked.  What if something is missing that we have never had?  This message is about that very thing.

  This age has become a sharp contrast from 1867 where the fastest transportation was a horse.  Roads outside of big cities were all dirt and 92% of all people lived on farms.  Back then many believers met any where they could and were glad to have even a Brush Arbor for shelter during a meeting.  With our padded pews, audio & video systems, full time pastors and facilities that include coffee shops, gymnasiums, and every othe

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