Family Meeting

We had a family in our church that we attended in another city who had family meetings. When we asked one of the boys what they did at family meetings he said that they mainly talked about Melissa, his sister, and her hiding the potato chips in her closet. Last Sunday we had a family meeting at our church. It was the annual business meeting. Though AGMs are important for all organizations it is easy to think of them has all important. We were reminded that the real business of the church is not what happens at the AGM but what happens as the family helps to grow together and to grow the kingdom of God. In our former church the business meetings were anything but a family meeting, they were more like a family fight. At one meeting one member threatened to beat up another member and sometimes the language was not appropriate for a family gathering. Some people always watched to see how one of the old time members voted before the would cast their vote. I am glad that our meeting was a family meeting where we talked about family matters.