It’s so easy for me to get caught up in what I’m getting out of a church experience or how its people are making me feel. But is church and its people only as valuable as I feel on any given day?
So if anyone purifies himself from anything dishonorable, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. 2 Tim 2:21
Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also those of wood and clay; some for honorable use and some for dishonorable. 2 Tim 2:20