CHURCH 101
I know I haven't been here for a couple of days - and there are a few things I could be writing about. I could bewail my IPOD woes - tell you how it froze, I messed up the re-programming and then lost all my music, but that would expose the fact that I'm technologically challenged.
I'd love to dwell on last night's meeting with our attorneys and the miracle of how our case has gone to a level Brookhaven won't be able to counter, but I don't care to elaborate here as this is too public a place.
Or of course, I could pass on some details from a great day we have just had as a pastoral team - some good things coming down the Pike there.
But the first thing that's on my mind right now is wondering how so many good pastors can have church dead wrong. I'm not talking about geriatric leaders of congregations that died half a century ago but won't lie down, I'm thinking cutting edge, radical, doing the business guys.
I just read two blogs that advocate missions is serving the area you're in and that's about it. They even try to quote the Bible to justify their approach - misinterpreting Acts 1:8 and suggesting Jesus said we should be his witnesses in our Jerusalem, then Judaea, then Samaria and then the uttermost parts of the earth.
Pity they missed the bit that the better translations render that - both in Jerusalem and in Judaea and in Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth.
People grow as they catch a vision outside of themselves and outside of the local church. We all need to sow into the lives of those who have nothing to give back and whose salvation will not immediately benefit what we are part of. The sending church grows too as a result of missions involvement.
Pity they've missed that!
Can you tell I'm pumped for our missions series - SHINE?
I'd love to dwell on last night's meeting with our attorneys and the miracle of how our case has gone to a level Brookhaven won't be able to counter, but I don't care to elaborate here as this is too public a place.
Or of course, I could pass on some details from a great day we have just had as a pastoral team - some good things coming down the Pike there.
But the first thing that's on my mind right now is wondering how so many good pastors can have church dead wrong. I'm not talking about geriatric leaders of congregations that died half a century ago but won't lie down, I'm thinking cutting edge, radical, doing the business guys.
I just read two blogs that advocate missions is serving the area you're in and that's about it. They even try to quote the Bible to justify their approach - misinterpreting Acts 1:8 and suggesting Jesus said we should be his witnesses in our Jerusalem, then Judaea, then Samaria and then the uttermost parts of the earth.
Pity they missed the bit that the better translations render that - both in Jerusalem and in Judaea and in Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth.
People grow as they catch a vision outside of themselves and outside of the local church. We all need to sow into the lives of those who have nothing to give back and whose salvation will not immediately benefit what we are part of. The sending church grows too as a result of missions involvement.
Pity they've missed that!
Can you tell I'm pumped for our missions series - SHINE?
posted by Roger Blackmore | 4:56 PM
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