As a follow-up to our discussion about rethinking church at the Men’s What-a-Study last week, this week I asked the other guys what their church would look like if they removed all their prejudices from the past and started with nothing but their knowledge of Scripture and a blank sheet of paper.
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Sunday many of us shared some of our dreams for encounter and what things could be. I loved hearing so many suggest that we should be looking outside of ourselves.
I’ve recently been reading more and more articles from The Ooze and today an article by Keith Giles caught my attention as we continue the discussion of what we are and who we are as a tribe/church/family.
When Jesus announced his ministry and proclaimed his Gospel of the Kingom it was like setting off a bomb in the heart of the city. People got excited. The religious leaders of the day got nervous. The political leaders took notice….
When Jesus established the Church he did not build something with a physical temple or a daily animal sacrifice or a special group of elite clergy. The Church that Jesus built was out of the ordinary. It was radical. It was unlike anything that had ever come before it.
I almost hate to give away the ending… but its so good!
You and I are this same Church. We are the people of God. We are part of something more unique and fabulous than any of us could have ever imagined.
Who are you in Christ? You are a new creation. You are the Temple of God. You are the Priests of God. You are the daily, living sacrifice to God.
We are a people unlike any the world has ever seen or imagined before.
We are the Church.
Wish the author would have thrown in some exclamation points there. Think about those statements for a second. They’re worth repeating.
We are a people unlike any the world has ever seen or imagined before!
We are the Church!
Amen!
