how do people do it? trying to minister on any daily basis among the church, when the church is a wide-spread conglomeration of individuals who drive up to an hour to come to a weekly meeting?
I mean, daily ministry is to be "neighbor-intensive" isn't it? Jesus told us to love our neighbors. and i'm talking about healing them and doing good deeds among them and to them... soooo... how does the church do that when its meaning is reduced to meeting-culture attendance/membership?
wow. what a systemic problem we face...
during this shifting time, Christians need to focus on ministering in the church, where they live, with the church as their family, daily, in real-time, as a body... this means that the christians you live near are more your church than the meeting community you attend on Sundays...
This implies a shift of understanding of "church" to mean a people: the people nearest your home, first...
All this "drive-in" christianity is producing "drive-away" christianity! This simply isn't the kind of service to which Christ called us. What?
forget how much more effective at the work it is to do it right. What about just the plain old pleasure of our Lord. Let's repent and redefine our terms in Biblical ways, no matter what the cost...
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we are family. i got all my neighbors with me. we are family and we love Jesus you see. (To the tune of we are family. Thank you Sister Sledge) :) who's lame?that would be me!
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