Oh Christian, what are we striving for?  Are we running the race for success?  Big numbers in the head count on Sunday morning?  Huge social media following?  If our pet chairity has a soup kitchen and free  clothing shop, are we then satisfied? 

No matter how much we give, if the recipient is “outside” we have given nothing. If the church on Sunday morning is packed with bright and shining faces, but those faces leave doomed, what good then, does the head count do?  Numbers in giving, numbers in anything is akin to David numbering the Lord’s Army. And not a small amount of pride goes along with it.