Church Part 1
I feel that we are a long way from where the church first started. Give me a moment to explain this. I love the church (God's gift of community to the world), but the church of 2010 is far from the church of Acts 3. I am not talking about specific church locations but the all-encompassing body of Christ. Now let's keep in mind that the New Testament church wasn't confined to a building. The New Testament church was found in people and is still found in people. In 2010 we are so focused on how to do church and do church better, but God never intended for us to do church. He wants us to be the church. In Acts the church was built around a simple process. They were the church (extending God's hands of love and life) everywhere they went and then they met together and celebrated the life of Christ.
We treat Sunday mornings as a pep rally. We get together, sing and dance, jump and rejoice. But pep rallys make no sense if there is no game to being played afterwards. Let me make a suggestion. If you are not being the church daily and participating in Kingdom building, you should stop having pep rallies if you are not gonna play the game.