Church Drains: The Epidemic of the Worthless Servant Pt. 1

Imagine you find a church you enjoy....the music is pretty good and the preaching is awesome...it's probably your fourth or fifth time going...you pile up the kids, remembering that your occasionally hyperactive 7 year-old invites his occasionally hyperactive 7-year old friend...so he comes too...but you're cool because the children's church is good as well...aaaaannnd you get there to find there's no children's church this Sunday.  It turns out that of the 5,000 members that attend, the church couldn't scrape together 20 that could replace the usual 20 that serve in that ministry...every Sunday...for uncountable consecutive number of Sundays.  That team had been wanting to take a break since last year, but they couldn't because there were no replacements.  They did all they thought was necessary to solicit help in the children's ministry.  But out of the large number of teachers and daycare workers that attend that church, none of them felt the need or desire to serve.  You start to feel bad...and then judgmental.  Thoughts like, this big church can't keep a children's thing going and how they gonna just leave parents hanging like that swarm through your head.  And these thoughts must be heavy, too; because never did you think that in the 20 years of you going to church(es) you haven't even asked if anyone needed any help.