Heart Surgery

Last night our small group from church met for the first time this fall.  We have a great group with 15 members this season. We are reading Andy Stanley's book, Enemies of the Heart.  Andy introduced the book by talking about a scare he had when his heart was having an unusual beat pattern.  He went to the hospital and after running a lot of tests, they finally figured out the irregular beat was caused by a steroid shot he had received to treat a reaction to poison ivy.  Of course, the book is focused on our emotional/spiritual heart, not our physical heart, but there are some interesting similarities. Many times people are prescribed medications to treat symptoms caused by heart problems, without treating the underlying problem. We do this with our spiritual hearts as well.  There are outside forces from the world that put pressure on us.  We often build walls to protect ourselves from those pressures, but eventually the underlying problems can surface or even explode - an attack of the heart. We will be spending the next 12 weeks looking at those enemies of the heart and learning how to understand them and guard against them.  Stay tuned.