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What Kind of Insurance Does the Church Sell?

When a minister friend of mine is introduced to a stranger and the stranger asks "what do you do for a living?", my friend says I sell fire insurance." There is some scripture in the Book of Jude which addresses this imperative demand of the gospel: "And convince some who doubt; save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." (Jude 1:22-23 PSV)

For whatever motives one may attend worship in his or her church, there are some non-valid reasons of attending: (1) there just might be a God and I want to be on the safe side; (2) it is a place to meet the right people; (3) as a kind of "insurance." None of these are proper motives for attending. The only motive is to worship the God who created and redeemed us.

If one dares to speak of the church in the terminology of "insurance," he must speak of the benefits one derives from being active in the Body of Christ at work in the world today. Whenever adults and children gather to study in the Christian Education endeavor of the church, they not only learn about the Christ but also how to live the principles of the Word in the world which in turn enables them to live life to the fullest in the world which constantly tugs at them to become like it.

Moreover, sermons preached by the servants of God, when heeded by God's children, will enable them to be much better prepared to live in the world which does have its daily problems for each one of us, and for frustrations which we cannot handle without having a deep abiding faith. Also there is the fellowship Of the "Body" which is the highest kind of fellowship known on this earth.

It is Biblical to characterize the Church as the "Laboratory of Life" where Christians learn to put into practice the precepts of the Christian Religion: to love one another, to share with one another, to care for one another, and to rejoice and suffer together.

Yes, the Church does sell insurance if you mean preaching the "unsearchable riches of the Lord Jesus Christ," teaching men, women, boys and girls how to live in this world so that each can live life, and have peace of mind in the body rejoicing in the promises of eternal life - not having a form of religion as a sort of insurance.