When someone asks, "Where is your church?" we point them to a building or give them an address, and everything centers around what happens at that location.
When we gather at the building, we learn to be good. Being good is defined by what we avoid in the world. We are holy because of what we don't participate in (and at this point we may be the only organization in the world defining success by what we don't do). We live decent lives in decent homes with decent jobs and decent families as decent citizens. We are decent church members with little more impact on the world that we had before we were saved.
-David Platt, Radical
Sound familiar?
What if when we listened to a sermon, instead of wondering what we can get out of it, we listened to it so that we could go and teach it to someone(s) else? Someone who is waiting, hungry, expecting. What would that kind of a church look like?
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Empty???? Everyone would be out working.....?????Hey... But what about all the dinners???? Meetings???? Well...Hummm we could bring some hungry people to the DINNER???OR FORGET the meetings, go visit someone??? Tell them God sent you....
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