Flatliner: April 2015

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

What is a Church Community?

I've been thinking about this question lately.

I beleive that, in the future, it'll take more intentionality, but as of today I am starting to answer the question.

Here's what I think a church should look like:

It should focus on Jesus
Everyone should participate
It should meet the needs of the people
The people should be active

It should focus on Jesus

God sent his son to be the sacrifice which saves us from the punishment of sin. The church should focus on this and the miracles that we see in our lives because of this.

Everyone should participate

It's a community and everyone has a part. I think it can be as simple as asking and answering questions:

What scripture speaks to you this week?

Why?

What has God done in your life this week?

What do you need God to do in your life?

How can we help?

It should meet the needs of the people

All of them.

The people should be active

Church can only meet so much. You have to apply what God shows you to your life and your actions must reflect it.

Hebrews 12

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned." The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.