The Life Worth Living

"Don't tell me you need a life as well as/in addition to/away from this. This is a life!"

This is what Donovan Coetzee, the South African national leader of the Assembly of God church group, once said about church. I love it.

So often we say we can't serve at a church event or can't commit to a certain role at the church, because it will take up to much time and, "I do have a life too, you know!"

But you don't think it's acceptable to have a life away from your spouse, do you?

So how can it be that we need a life away from the most important relationship we'll ever have and the only relationship that will last into eternity?

This is a life. The only life worth living.