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
BEHIND THE WALLS
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#1 by paul schubert on October 4, 2010 - 5:55 PM
i really like that one pastor , i really understand where your coming from with getting outside the walls but how in the world do u do that when it scares the daylights out of u to just to open up to strangers let alone to share the glory of the lord . i just have a really hard time with this its just like this week at service i really want to recieve the holyghost but am sraced how do i over come this