I’m a big fan of “mission”

I think a lot of churches have it backwards by expecting non-christians, non-religious, religious haters, apathetic people, people of other faiths to come to their church to hear a message about Jesus.

What has resulted is an attractional model in the Church today, which instead of being God-pleasers only, we resort to being Man-pleasers and compromise the Grace and Truth of the Gospel.

I love Alan Hirsch’s book “The Forgotten Ways” because he really examines this “seeker sensitive model” well and also shares how Jesus calls us to live out mission in the church.

Go to where non-christians are and reach them on their turf! I know it’s a radical idea, but if only we as the church embodied this more.

Listen to what Alan Hirsch says about this and being “missional”:
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2008/06/audio_ur_alan_h.html

Learning about Church

Greetings!

I am watching my weekly video podcast of Cornerstone’s messages. They are currently doing a series on Community and speaking specifically on Church.

I have really been gripped by this idea of what “Church” is supposed to be biblically vs. how it looks in big mega churches today.

I have loved so much about what Francis Chan is saying, especially about the need to be community that deeply loves each other like we see in the early Church.

I have so much hope in the Church of Jesus Christ and how God is stirring his church to love one another so that world may see in give Glory to God.

1 John 4:11 says, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. ”

And I think of Paul’s charge to “Love the brotherhood”! We are care so deeply for each other and carry each other’s burdens.

I pray that God would empower us by His Spirit to do this well!

Check out this series if you want to gain more insight into The Church!

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Learning to Love,
Ken