It was just over 20 years ago when a couple from church I hardly knew asked my brother and I to help them remodel their 100-year-old farmhouse. It started during a fundraiser for our youth group at church.
Category: on Scripture
The last thing you need is a personal relationship with Jesus.
If by personal, you mean private, or personalized… then the last thing you need is a personal relationship with Jesus. But what we all need is the opportunity to try on things a size too big, stomp around in them, and get a feel for what they’re like.
Your church was missing people yesterday.
The reality is, people love to be noticed. But perhaps more than that, people love to be missed. And too often the church focuses on who is new, and who is here, and misses the people who need to be noticed the most.
Fellowship is more than Oatmeal Creme Pies.
You see, fellowship, Christian community, is not about gathering as if being together is the object. It is about how together we are being gathered up to Christ.
Church: Wake up! We have work to do.
In the church, we have work to do. We have a calling. We have a mission in our communities. And it is our responsibility, one to another, as members of one body, to turn to one another—and not as authority or lording power over someone, but as people who love each other—to say, “Wake up!” we have work to do.