Planting is hard work. There's the digging of the hole and the careful placing of the seed or seedling...lots of watering (at the beginning especially). Some plants don't grow in certain soils. Some grow quickly and entail consistent pruning, weeding, and spraying with pesticides. Of course I know nothing of gardening or farming. I was thinking more along the lines of church-planting. I'm fairly inexperienced in that arena as well, but I've learned one thing for sure...it's hard work. I have this propensity for doing all the things I can control rather than choosing the good part. You know what I mean by the "good part"? It's taken from Luke 10:42. Here, two sisters have Jesus in their home, with two entirely different approaches to the event. You've got your basic hard-worker., cooking, washing, dusting...and the other sitting...just sitting and listening to the words that flowed from His lips. Here's the thing...Jesus scolded one of them (which I'm glad because I don't think people should be giving Jesus orders especially right after they refer to Him as "Lord"). But what strikes me is that it wasn't the one who chose to spend time with Him that was chided. You'd think "getting your house in order" would bring th applause of the Messiah. Spoken like a true "hard-worker". I read somewhere that "cleanliness is next to Godliness"? Anyone can stand around and greet guests on Sunday morning...the toilet paper dispensers aren't going to fill themselves! If there's a meal after church, somebody's got to skip worship to set the tables...heat the mashed potatoes...right? According to Jesus, we can worry and bother about things that will work themselves out anyway, and then there's the "good part". In planting a church, there's so much work to do...one more meeting...another visit to make...letter to write...email to answer. And not one of those things grow this church in any substantial way. What people need is time with the Savior. That's what changes them...saves them...makes them whole. And at the end of the day, that's what we were called to do anyway...connect them to the Living God. Paul says we can plant and water but only God can grow His church...and He will (I Cor. 3:6-7). And so two sisters invited Jesus to their home...one was complemented for her definition of what was "necessary"..one was not only corrected, but Jesus chose to record it in His Word, so I could read it sitting here on my couch.