Miamisburg Christian Church

This Sunday we will begin a series called Heartbeat.  I have done some research on the heart.  I’m sure that most - if not all of us know that the heart’s primary purpose is to - 24 hours a day - pump blood that carries oxygen to the rest of our body.

And you probably know that the human heart is roughly the size of your fist and weighs less than a pound.

Here are some other things I found out:

Each day the average heart "beats" 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood. 

In a 70-year lifetime, an average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times, pumping approximately 1 million barrels of blood.

If all these vessels of the circulatory system were laid end-to-end, they would extend for about 60,000 miles - far enough to encircle the earth more than twice.

When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And within about 10 seconds, brain activity ceases and the body begins to rapidly shut down.  That’s how important your heart is. 

Because you are alive you know that your heart is beating.  In this series we are going to see the same thing is true of the church.  You know a church is alive if it’s heart is beating for the same things that make God’s heart beat. 

I hope you’ll invite a friend to come with you.

Mike