The Cuckoo Church

Thinking about being on the road again this week - to our friends at Christian Asembly in East Patchogue, who are letting us borrow their building again! - I was realizing that we're kind of a cuckoo church. Now, I don't mean cuckoo in the sense of crazy, more in the ornithological, feathered bird sense.

Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests if I remember rightly from Elementary School. Looking back it seems that there are quite a number of other churches' nests we have used when we need to do anything that falls outside of our Sunday morning movie theater slot.

A few months ago we were loaned First Baptist Church for our Pinewood Derby, Thursday we'll be in Christian Assembly for 4Him and in a couple of weeks we have two Tuesday nights planned at World Outreach Church of God for The Journey @ Grace Church. We've had the use of a bunch of other places too and have offers that I still have on hold and will shamelessly call in as needed.

It's great to have such a good relationship with local pastors. It's also good to have a bunch of leaders who realize we're all on the same side and who want to do all they can to see the kingdom of God advance.

Other churches are not the competition. Godless influences are the enemy and we fight them best by being the answer to Jesus' prayer for his followers that they may be one.

God never intended us to be the same, to worship the same or even for us all to belong to one church. Variety is part of the genius of the creator. Unity in diversity is of our making and I appreciate the fact that so many pastors in our area see that as a priority.