Sandstones and Iron: My perception of what the modern church is like

I go to church with the specific intention to find ways to build others up. I do not go to be entertained nor do I use it as a self-help opportunity. Most everyone else these days see it the other way around.

When I get genuinely blessed by other true believers I am grateful but in these modern churches today I have found this to be a very rare occurrence. What I mean by blessed is not in material things but in spiritual edification and all around discipleship.

I call when I go to church today "church invasion". I and my family go in and do whatever we can for however long the church will have us. We do not go in with the intention to drive anyone away or to lure them to some other church but instead we go in with the intention to build up the people where they are so they as individuals within their group can be more enlightened and more equipped to walk circumspectly and to seek and save the lost.

Sad but it is not really iron sharpening iron in churches today but instead it is more like sandstone trying to massage sandstone.

Bring in a little iron and everyone just seems to lose it.

Sandstone does not seem to like iron much...