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Missy<\/a> recently was talking about relationships she missed<\/a>. That got Kansas Bob<\/a> talking about the cost of friendship<\/a>. In his post, Bob quoted this scripture:<\/p>\n

Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. <\/p>\n

Matthew 5:23-24<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That got me thinking about priorities.
\nWe, it seems, tend to think that ‘God things’ have a high priority. Things like attending church, the way we worship, communion and offerings and contributions. These are Important Things, things that must come first, or at least high on our list.
\nLook again at this passage and notice God’s priority.
\nThe man is there to pay honor to god, to make his gift, to give his contribution, to write the check and God says stop for a moment and examine. He’s about to put God first. He’s about to proclaim his allegiance and God says don’t just yet. Why?
\nReconciliation.
\nGod says your honoring of me through gifts, gifts I’ve commanded you to make, is less important than your reconciliation to your brother. My gift can wait, go be reconciled.
\nThat hit me powerfully when I read it earlier today. How often do we have that backward today? If you skipped church this Sunday to go visit someone you had issues with or had issues with you, would you be praised or chastised? Don’t we tend to emphasize the practice of religion over the practice of our relationships? We say, your relationship can wait, go worship God.
\nHow ironic that so many are willing to sever relationships for the sake of ‘purer and holier worship’, when God says you should interrupt your worship to fix your relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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