Look At All The Lonely People

The lyrics of a big hit song by the Beatles takes a poke at Christianity while asking two questions that deserve our attention. In the song, Eleanor Rigby, the lyrics asks:

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Jesus ministered to the misfits, the outcast, the hopeless, and the sinners. The people that didn’t fit the norm, the lepers and disadvantaged, were welcomed into the fellowship of our Lord. Are these lonely people welcomed into the church family today? Are the country-pumpkin, the tattooed lady, the pothead, and the prostitute made welcome when they show up in their overhauls or mini-skits?

Self-serving saints are always offering lame excuses for the empty pews among which is the most hypocritical; “People just don’t want to hear the gospel.” Never mind the fact that we speak a foreign language to them using church terms they don’t know.  The ushers welcome them in their Sunday best but no one offers to sit with them. Look at the all the lonely people. They stand out like stains on a white shirt.  

There is not a lack of people, there never has been. Jesus said the fields are white to harvest. What is lacking today is a renewal of purpose! The church is a lighthouse in a stormy world. The people manning the lighthouse need to sit next the homeless, nurture the street kid, and love the outcast.

I look at all the lonely people.

I look at all the lonely people.

Where do they come from? They come from a sin-sick world. Where do they belong? They belong in the church.  Share 

So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. (Matthew 22:9-10 NIV)

This is my Take, Pastor Jim Follow @pastorbarr
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