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Gathering is good.
Connecting is better.
Shamelessly stole this from Carey Niewhof
We do more to be the church in how we connect over 6 days than how we gather over 1 hour.
Everything has changed.
This has a starting question:
What is a church?
Is a church a place to get together with other christians once a week to have a worship service?
Is it even a building to begin with?
A lot of times people will say, ‘the church is the people’.
It doesn’t matter where they gather - it’s about the people in the place, not the place.
And that’s true.
But we have a vision for a a greater purpose than that.
So, in light of how drastically it seems like life has changed over the last 1,2,3,5,10 years, we want to challenge some of our notions of why we’re here, and what we’re supposed to do.
And we’re gonna look at it through 3 different levels:
What should us being a church look like to US?
what should us being a church look like to the WORLD?
and what should us being the church NOW look like for the NEXT GENERATION?
I have a bit of a definition for ‘a church’ that I’d like to offer up, before we start.
And it’s important for us to recenter ourselves on the bible, and what God is even doing here in our church and with our lives.
People in unity under Christ in order to preach the Gospel to the world.
And one thing to notice - this isn’t specifically focused on sunday service.
One of the core beliefs we have as a church, is that we do more in the 167 hours between sunday services to be the church than we do in the one hour in this building.
That’s not to minimize what we do here - what we do here is extremely important.
But this is the starting place - it’s not the end goal.
Church is the launching point, we are the training grounds to send us out into the world to do God’s work.
We gather together in order to be able to go out into the world for Christ.
There’s a few essential components to what a church IS.
When all the world changes - these are our foundation points.
Being the Church is about Submission
Church is supposed to be an upside-down kingdom.
It’s not about vying for the top, or the best seat.
Or a simpler way of saying it - church isn’t about what we get, it’s about what we give.
And in this story, Jesus says - i’m the greatest here.
And he’s not even the greatest ‘at the table’.
It’s his table.
In his house.
On his planet.
In his universe.
He’s the top of every list.
The highest person we will ever meet, ever, has come to earth, and made it his job to serve the people around Him.
Being the church is about adopting that radical position.
Being a church means we define ourselves by our radical submission.
True submission is both unity and surrender
Biblical submission involves our relationships - both with each other, between ourselves and leadership, and between everyone and Christ.
This involves unity - being willing to look past faults and failures in order to maintain bonds of love - AND surrender - understanding that it’s not our will, it’s Christ’s be done.
Unity and submission is so important, that Jesus says the world won’t be able to see the Gospel if it can’t see love in us.
And here’s a secret.
Every church has disagreements.
every church has problems that need to be resolved.
You can’t put any number of people in a room for any length of time without problems arising.
But maybe they aren’t speedbumps towards the gospel - maybe they are ramps.
They are opportunities for us to show the world the supernatural power of God that hangs above every single thing we do.
We’ve all seen it go the other way.
Reading political news seems to be like watching a giant cage match.
The world excels at ‘might makes right’.
But the church shows the real power of God when it encounters the same kinds of problems, the same kinds of struggles - and stays together.
Stays united, compassionate towards each other, caring for each other.
The first aspect of church is submission.
the second is
Mission
Getting together every week is not the goal.
We do not exist to put on sunday services.
That’s a tool in our belt towards our goal.
This is often the ‘why’.
Why do we exist?
Why do we do what we do?
What on earth are we on earth for?
The most important item on the table is reaching the lost with the Gospel.
Period.
We call this the great comission.
Jesus standing in all authority that’s ever been created, and telling us to go out and make disciples.
So everything we do needs to bend towards this option.
And everything else in terms of our focus for action is second.
Whenever a church ‘goes’, it has to think style, structure, what the programs look like.
What will our church look like and sound like.
and there’s a million answers to those kinds of questions.
But that’s all secondary.
There’s a world out there dying.
We have friends and family who don’t know Christ.
When we look at it that way, all of our differences and disagreements don’t seem quite as big.
STORY - One day, Jesus’ disciples were arguing about something.
And it was, ‘which one of us is the best’.
Jesus says - if you think you’re the best, you should be the lowest.
You should be the servant.
So who’s the ‘top’?
Apart from Jesus.
The person who doesn’t know Jesus is the most important person in the room
This is a radical idea.
But Jesus himself said - he came to earth to reach the sick people that needed Him.
And our mission as a church is to do whatever needs to be done, to be whatever we need to be, so that more people can hear the gospel.
Paul says, 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.
I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.”
The first two parts of being a church are submission and mission.
The last one is
Action
The people in this room, the people watching online - we’re absolutely an essential part of what being the church church, obviously.
If the church is the people and not the building, that means it IS the people, right?
But church doesn’t REALLY exist for us.
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