Church Sign of the week 7

Our hedonistic and comfort loving admin assistant couldn't be bothered to change the sign today. It's raining in Melbourne and yesterday was one of the coldest July days on record (according to the radio, but who believes them?).

So we get this....

Too cold and wet to change the sign. Message inside.

He is of course partially right. The message is inside, Sunday 11am, 2pm and 5pm. But there is far more than that to our message.

I like crime novels (stick with me here, it goes somewhere). Murders where clever detectives take 230 pages to figure out who done it, it's usually the one that you didn't suspect so I always suspect him or her on page 17 and am usually wrong!. I digress, one of my favourite authors is Michael Connelly who has a deceive named after a famous painter - Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch has a quote that I think is brilliant and as meaningful for a minister as a policeman.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

In God's eyes and in this church EVERYBODY counts.

That's our message - if you come in out of the cold and wet or if you walk past and smile at our silly sign we would like you to remember that God loves you - it doesn't matter where you come from, what language you speak, what the colour of your skin is, how much money you have or don't have, who you date or anything else - you count!

Remember that!