BEHIND THE WALLS

As I sat in my office today at the church preparing for the weekend ahead this thought crossed my mind. Church is operating behind walls to often. We preach behind the walls, worship behind the walls, train behind the walls and it makes no sense. The Church was designed to operate outside the walls! The Church is much more effective outside the four walls of our grand buildings. The Gospel message must be taken to the streets, schools, malls, and workplaces. So many that we come in contact with would never agree to come to our building but would receive a message of hope. I wonder if the church inside the walls has become our church that we are building and not the church He is building. It seems the mentality of many of so-called Christians feel they must get people inside the doors of the church before we feel we are successful. Take it outside, take it to the neighborhoods. In the Old Testament they contained God in a box and He broke free on the third day and now 2000 years later He has been put in another box we call CHURCH

Where Are You Going?

I have heard many people say ” I don’t know how ended up at this place in life” and my answer is simple, its the path you took. If we want to end up at a specific location (dream, vision, goal) then we must map it out. To many times we wander from place to place without any real direction in mind. I know it sounds so simple but the direction you are heading today determines where you end up. Goals and dreams are not enough, there has to be a direction set in order to arrive at the place you have in mind. If it seems that you never arrive at the place you want to it probably is because you have taken the wrong road. When we set out to achieve a goal we must have a clear route planned. Where do you want to end up? What road are you on and will it get you there? These are questions we must ask ourselves if we want to avoid the frustration of never getting to the place we intended.

Does God Go To Church?

“He who is near the church is often far from God”  French Proverb

The above quote caught my attention today and started me thinking. I know that where two or three are gathered together He is in the midst but I wonder sometimes if God is bothered by being contained in our boxes we call churches? Oh I know God is everywhere and we couldn’t contain Him if we wanted to but we do limit Him to a building with our religious paradigms. “Let’s go to church so we can feel God and see His miraculous acts” is what we think and speak while Jesus Christ is trying to build a “church” or extension of himself outside our boxes. Whether intentional or not we wrap Christ up in a pretty package and let Him out on Sunday and the world is crying out to see and feel Him and we present that it is not possible unless they come to church. Instead of inviting the lost world to church why don’t we bring the church to them. Let’s let God out of church and let’s become the church!

The Kingdom of God

Supernatural healing’s would seem to confirm that God’s kingdom is functioning through the Apostolic church operating in the power of the Holy Spirit. So if we are not seeing the miraculous happening in our churches, at our jobs, in our schools and on our streets then it would suggest that we have not come to the knowledge of the purpose of Christ’s church. Those who claim to be Apostolic stay true to the Apostolic Doctrine and they are Apostolic in Power but most lack the Book of acts commitment. We must make a commitment to operating in the Power of the Spirit