I saw a cartoon once showing a man sweating and grunting, carrying a whole church on his back. Can you identify with that? It seems as though the demands of church membership are pretty heavy, aren’t they? Always asking us for money - if not to repair the roof, then for missions or for hunger. If we complain we don’t have anything to spare, then we’re told we should eat a bit less and give the difference. On top of asking for our money, the church also wants our time - for committees, for teaching, for learning, for visiting the shut-ins, for calling on those who are slipping away from our fellowship, for making contact with new people, for caring for our altar, for reading the lessons, for ushering, for singing in the choir, for licking stamps, for tending the library, for mowing the lawn…