Greetings brothers and sisters. Today we had a sermon about the church family (1 Timothy 5) and it was a really good and applicable sermon. Especially because it discusses who the church and its members should support financially. Let me tell you, it's a very good topic for a place like this. Pastor Brian used an illustration about this big strong Ugandan guy came up to him and asked him to give him assistance because he was an orphan. He wanted school fees and stuff like that so Pastor Brian said that he should get a job. And the guy said, yeah but I'm an orphan. He had been given hand outs so often he thought it was his right to keep getting them. The passage talks about giving widows aid, but Pastor Brian applied it to anybody who needs aid. First we are to see if the person truelly has a need. If so, the first people who should aid them are their direct family. If they have no direct family then the church is supposed to aid them. Also, if the person is young and strong enough to work, then the church is not supposed to give them aid because that promotes idleness and creates gossipers and busybodies. Also, we're supposed to treat eachother as family. That means we are to talk to older men as if they were our father, older ladies like they're our mother, and young people like siblings. So we are not to come to church for the sole purpose of getting a girlfriend or boyfriend and we are to treat girls as sisters and guys as brothers. That means we should be out with them and doing things that we wouldn't do with our own sisters and brothers (I believe making out was mentioned here). Anyways, it was a good sermon. I hope you all have a wonderful day also, praising and worshipping God. He deserves all the honour and glory.