Everyone has their favorite verse, book, Apostle, story, or chapter in the Bible. For me, mine is a chapter its Romans 12. I love this chapter because it covers the basics for everything us Christians do in our day to day living.
I have a whole "sermon" on this chapter that I wrote when I was 16. Looking back at it now 3 years later I still find that my 16 year old mind still connects with me as an older young adult today. *man I was smart for my age*
Anyway I was reading the chapter and I thought about if we as a church could just follow this chapter in our day to day living both "in the world" and at our local churchs we would see a huge difference in attendance (for those who care about new members) a better walk with God, or just have a great understanding of how the body of the church works.
I went through all that to get to this.........
If we would start treating our local church house as seriously as we do our mon-fri jobs and use what God has given each of us. We would see God work in bigger ways than he already does. If we would all just get off of our "holy art us asses" and get to work then well.. I guess we wouldn't have to be worrying about how the church is gonna pay this months bills, or why we can't have that new projector we so desperatly need for the worship service or why we don't have alot of youth in the church. Or any number of things. This is just not about tithes and new members. It's about souls and where they will go. I hate that we treat church like a place to be seen or a routine place to hang out on Sunday.It's alot more than that.
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Amen. Most of us lack depth of vision when it comes to being the church. For me, 2 Cor. 5:15 captures the reality of being Christ's body (forgive the paraphrase): "And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again."
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