Ephesians 1:22-23 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

During walk 1807 a resounding theme kept appearing, “I was just playing at church.”

We didn’t go into detail during the walk about what that meant, and the focus was that they were now on board. Praise God for that. This is one important aspect of the Emmaus experience, getting honest with yourself. Yet the question remains, why were they “playing church”?

From my viewpoint, mind you MY viewpoint, it comes down to a failure within mainstream churches to operate in discipleship. It isn’t taught, it isn’t followed and perhaps that is because it isn’t understood. In most cases it is assumed that once a believer says the sinner’s prayer they belong to Jesus and under His head.

Just because a man confesses Christ at the age of 40 does not change the fact that he has become a babe in Christ, who doesn’t know how to feed himself, talk, understand, walk or defend himself. Yet most of the churches leave these babes alone with their new worst enemy, Satan.

But if you take that same new born and set them up with a discipleship program which will examine them for every aspect of personal growth and keep with them during the process, you get a better result. You train up a disciple to disciple others. In this the main church has failed new believers.

Do all babes stay babes? No, and the assumption is that if they do not grow, they have not done the work. I say we have failed them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:

All things; do you think perhaps we left out a few?

Daniel 10:21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

During this past week I have shared with you those things which I noted. I very well may have been the only one who made these notes. It came to me this morning as I was about to wrap up this series that what I noted is not all that is worthy of writing about. There were some really good points which might speak to others in ways that didn’t appear as important to me.

One is that I have made my choice to be a disciple of Christ. This saying from justifying grace didn’t impress me as it might others because I had already made my choice. Here it is.

Not make a choice is making a choice.

This subtle message was lost on me because I fit on the made a choice side of the fence. This issue is so true in all our life experiences yet we rarely give it much thought. Perhaps it is because we think we have time to make a decision and then we put off making a decision, which means we have allowed circumstances to dictate our fate.

This weekend it came to mind because I built a big beautiful deck for my remodeled house. It was expensive but the old one had not been treated properly and the wood did what wood does if not protected, it decayed. We talked about wood protection and we looked into all kinds of types of stains, paints, coatings, and renewal systems. The best was very expensive but was meant for older decks that had already begun to weather. We didn’t need that, this was a new deck.

Two years went by without making a decision. The deck is weathering, cracks have formed and now the decision has been made for us. Use the most expensive deck protection system or replace the deck in another two years.

So Jesus is offering the ultimate protective covering for free. Choose Him now because time is running out and decay will happen. Not choosing Jesus is choosing decay.