Church today has become about a lot of stuff that it was never intended to be!  All of the stuff distracts us and keeps us from being successful, the way that God wants us to be successful!  God gave the church it’s marching orders with the Great Commission – we are to go into ALL of the world and MAKE DISCIPLES!  Our mission is to help people who do not know Jesus to come to a place where they know Him in a real, personal and life changing way!

Maybe instead of being called  a “member” of a church – we should be called a “missionary”, because isn’t that more of what we are supposed to be and do?  We need to start seeing ourselves as representatives of Jesus – sent into our communities to bring healing, purpose and direction!

We need to stop looking at church as a place to go and instead see it as something that we are day in and day out!  Remember – the church is not the building – it’s the people!

We need to look for Jesus in our community, figure out what He is up to and join Him in His work!  (ie. Experiencing God!)  By the way, He would love for us to join Him!  I was wondering:  Do we have to ask Him to join us and bless our work, if we have joined Him and what He is doing?

It is time to stop hiding out in the church building and start getting out into a lost, dying and frustrated world, so that we might share with everyone that we can the ONE who can really make the difference.  We don’t need to conform to the culture that we live in and around, but we do need to get busy engaging it!

In what way have you served the community that you live in?  What kind of relationships have you built outside of the church?  What have you done lately that wasn’t for you, but for someone else?

If we will accept and live in the power of our relationship with Jesus and yield to the leadership of the Holy Spirit in our lives – we will see God do some incredible and amazing things!  I am so looking forward to it!