In Malachi the first chapter describes a worship where the people brought blind, crippled and diseased animals to be sacrificed to the Lord.  Their worship was without love and honor, so God asked, “Where is my honor, where is my respect?” 

Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as your sacrifice, “Should I accept them?” Says the Lord. Malachi  1:13-14 

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.  They worship me in vain, their teachings are but rules taught by men.  Matt. 15:8-9 

I believe the worship described here is not worship at all, they were not giving God their best, but just going through the motions, “punching their clock” to say I was at Church today. Brothers and sisters, my prayer for Summit is we will always worship God in spirit and in truth! We will always show love for each other and our Lord and Savior who gave His life for us.  We will always give God our “Best.”  We won’t just sing songs; we will sing praises to honor Him!  We won’t just take communion; we will gather at the Lord’s Table to remember the sacrifice of Jesus! When we listen to God’s word we will let it speak to us and move us to live a better life, to put others before ourselves, to love our enemies as we love ourselves! My prayer for Summit is we will be like the Church described in Acts 2, this Church loved God’s Word, they loved to fellowship, to break bread and to pray.  This Church praised God and had everything in common. They were a family! 

I believe this sounds like Summit!  If you are not part of a church family we welcome you to join our family here.