People like to joke that pastors only work one day a week.
If that were true, my lawn would be immaculate, my lifts would always be PR-worthy, and my inbox would be empty. And yet none of those things are true.
But the joke does point to something real: for a lot of people, faith gets treated like a one-day-a-week thing.
Hear me out on this one. Sunday matters. Worship matters. The Word preached and the Sacraments given are real, true, and necessary. But Sunday was never meant to be the sum total of faithful living.
Sunday gives us truth.
Between the Sundays is where that truth gets lived.
And that’s what we’re going to spend our Thursdays digging into for the next several weeks.
It’s not a sermon. Not an announcement. Just an honest pause between the Sundays to look at what following Jesus actually looks like when the week is busy, the motivation is low, and life is al too real.
So here’s week one of Between Sundays: What no one tells you about following Jesus:
You won’t feel inspired most days.
There are days when prayer feels flat.
Days when Scripture feels more like discipline than delight.
Days when obedience feels ordinary, repetitive, and even unnoticed.
And if we’re not careful, we start to think something is wrong with us. It’s easy to feel like real faith is supposed to be full of power all the time.
But faith doesn’t run on motivation. It runs on trust.
And trust is built through habits. Small. Steady. Consistent. Normal rhythms of life surrendered to someone bigger and more powerful than ourselves.
The people who grow deepest aren’t the ones constantly riding spiritual highs. They’re the ones who keep showing up when nothing feels special. They pray when it’s quiet. They obey when it costs something. They live differently when no one is watching.
Knowledge matters.
Belief matters.
But belief that never moves toward action eventually stalls.
If you’re still showing up, still praying, still listening, still trying to live what you believe even when it feels dull or difficult, you need to hear this. You’re not failing.
You’re forming.
Most of the real work of faith happens slowly, quietly, and faithfully…
between the Sundays. Keep showing up friend!
