Spiritual Math

Jesus trained His disciples over a three-year period. They were with Him day and night.

24 hrs/day x 365 days x 3 years = 26,280 hours.

But we know that they were eating, sleeping and traveling during that time. So, let’s suppose that they had an eight-hour training day.

8 hrs/day x 365 days x 3 years = 8,760 hours of training.

• If you go to church for a one-hour worship service each week for 52 weeks [that’s 52 hours of “training”], it would take you 168 years to equal the same training that the disciples got in 3 years.
• If you go to church for a one-hour worship service and one hour of Sunday school/life group each week, it would take you 84 years to equal the same training that the disciples got in 3 years.
• If you go to church for a one-hour worship service, one hour of Sunday school/life group and one hour of mid-week Bible study, it would take you 56 years.
• If you go to church for a one-hour worship service, 1 hour of Sunday school/life group, 1 hour mid-week Bible study and 1 hour of prayer, it would take you 42 years.

Are you getting the picture?

A week has 168 hours. If you give God 1 hour a week, that 0.5% of your week. If you give God 2 hours a week, that’s 1.2%. If you give God 3 hours a week, that’s 1.8%. If you give God 4 hours a week, that’s 2.4%.

If the average person spends 7 hours a day sleeping, 8 hours a day working and 1.5 hours a day eating, that’s 16.5 hours out of 24 hours.

What are we doing the other 7.5 hours every day?

The excuse is we are too busy. Too busy doing what?

Question: in a bacon and egg breakfast, what’s the difference between the chicken and the pig? The chicken is involved but the pig commits. I guess the same question can apply to Christians.

Are we just involved or are we committed?

Dr. Pat Polis
The Church Mechanic 
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