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Doug good morning again.

Today, we're in pop to We are family.

So I'm going to church for the next few weeks.

I want you to understand what a church is, and why it is good and biblical idea to belong to one.

Not just hang out on Sundays, but I actually belong actually be a moving pop in the church.

Today will be an ox to it's on page 855 of you two Bibles.

If you want to open up to that we're going to have some other text to but it's going to be jumping around a little bit.

So if you don't, if the words are going to be on the screen for the text that I read most of it.

So today we're going to look to the second chapter of the book of Acts.

And today's lesson is called the kind of church.

I want to be a part of but I need to point out that I'm not talking about a perfect Church.

someone said, If I actually found the perfect, it would no longer be perfect.

Once I joined it, And that is so true.

But each and every one of us.

There is no perfect Church.

In reality, I know, you know, there is no perfect church because there are no perfect people, but with that being said, we do not need to find the best.

We need to, we need to find the best church with which to plant all lights.

I will say this over and over again.

If you don't feel like you can plug into this church you need to find another truck.

You don't get many pastas on Sunday telling you to go find another church but I will because if I get it, I think if you can plug into the truck, if you don't feel like you can be a part of this church, you need to find a third that you can be a part of And I'm not afraid to say that because I think the everybody needs to find somewhere where they can call home, and they can find a family.

See when it comes to to judge involvement.

You only have a few options.

You can neglect it.

You you don't see it as a valuable commodity so you don't make it a priority.

You say hi to church.

No big deal.

I don't need that.

Cool.

You can be a hopper.

Is Rock The Hoppers?

I'm all out of town.

They Hawk from one ship to another church.

You never charged and they go.

I'm not happy.

And I'm not happy, and I'm not happy and I'm like, You're the only common denominator.

Everywhere you go, you're not happy.

That's what happens.

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And there's lots of them, they come to church for six months and then they hook to another church for 6 months.

But I've been doing it because they don't want you to know who they really are.

They're doing it because they don't want to plug in and they just want to show up.

That's why big truck.

He's a big by the way, because you can go into a big truck and not be noticed by anybody else so you can go to church.

Pay, you have insurance on a Sunday and nobody even knows you exist.

You can just hop in and right back out.

And then you can be a spectator.

You can attend but never commit.

You can attend but never speak.

If you can keep coming to church, but you don't want to join because then you'll have to be committed to the church.

So, if I become a member then they're going to expect things out of me.

But don't you want to belong?

That would be my answer to that.

Don't you want to belong to something better than what you have already?

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you see this category for the person that found it in perfect church, that says, by the way, and upon realization that he or she is in Perfect 2.

Jump in, with his or her full commitment.

They got that time away, they should.

They are generous with their money because it's not that money.

By the way, it's God's money.

We don't have nothing that wasn't given to us first by God.

And they pray and they never look back.

They don't go.

I wonder what it would have been like at this truck.

All this s*** they pull in knowing that that surrounded by imperfect people and they they become part of the family.

So, what does this example of the early church teach us about being that kind of church?

That's headed in the right direction.

Not a perfect charge, but it's going in the right direction.

A church is not a place.

You go to, but a people to whom you belong.

That's why I think of you all as my family.

I think of you all as my family, if you called me up and asked me something, if I was capable of doing it, I would try and do it for you.

Because you're my family.

That's what families do.

They stick together?

They love each other.

Even though sometimes with irritable And, and we not perfect.

That's what we do.

So today we are talking about that kind of church.

We want to be a part of breath with talking about a group of Follow The Believers in Christ that I believe, God wants me to join and Johnny Webb and you should join and Johnny with we're on a journey of faith.

I'm not even there yet.

None of us has crossed the line yet cuz we're all still breathing this app.

So, when we talk about the kind of church, I want to be a part of our Focus isn't on Perfection but Direction it's the church seeking to follow Christ.

Is God calling me to join them for the journey.

because if you aren't all in, I don't understand.

I actually don't understand if you know, all in, why you show up on Sundays?

Cuz it's pointless.

That's what we're supposed to be doing was supposed to be a community of Believers growing together.

We don't

We going to look at the example of the early church here.

In Acts chapter 2, to learn what things should characterize a church that is headed in the right direction.

So this is not about finding the right Church to be a part of But how we can contribute to making a picture.

This church that God has called each and every one of us to you didn't show up here by accident today.

You might think all I just coming to drive to Papa this show, my decision to come in August.

The reason you're here today is because God wanted you here.

He wants you here.

So we can become part of the right kind of church.

It did it isn't about going to church but it's about becoming the church.

With two supposed to become the church.

Cuz this is just a building this is just a building that this building could go away and one day it will

It won't be here, any longer, 100, 200 years from now.