Vacancy

When our family was younger, Leslie and I and the kids traveled a lot. When they were little it was easy to get a single motel room and pile everyone in.  As they got bigger, it got crowded.  So we would often get two motel rooms and split up into two groups.  One parent and a couple of kids in each room.  

The best set-up though, was when we were able to get "connecting" rooms.  You know, two motel rooms, right next to each other, that had a door in the wall between the rooms, connecting them together.  When we got rooms like that, we threw the door in the wall open and it was like being in one big room.  Together! Unity!  It was great!  

We could stay in two rooms right next to each other, but if they didn't have a connecting door, we didn't have the same experience.  We were close, but we weren't together.  

Some people have a hard time getting connected to others because they grew up learning how to build walls and not open doors.  Some may have grown up seeing there was a door in the wall, but it wasn't open to them.  Others may have seen an open door, only to have it slammed in their face.  

You know what Crossroads is?  Crossroads is the place in the wall where the door used to be.  We took the door off its hinges.  You're welcome to come in.  We have connecting rooms.  Let's do LIFE together, in Christ.  

See you Sunday!  Bring a friend.