The church that Jesus lives for !

I have come through a time of real solitude and struggle with this thing called church and still feel that a lot of what we do should not be done and a lot of what we don’t do – should be done – being the church that Jesus lives for. It is as we know not so much about buildings, policies and doctrines, but a living breathing community of people fully engaged in getting down to doing the things that God wants us to do – love more, care more, forgive more, engage with others more, listen more and give more to those who do not have. We have become overweight with what we can get out of church rather than asking – what can we do to serve the church better – the people, community, vineyard belonging to God. How we do this will determine the life or death of a co- created force of life so able to change the world we live in, and yet so vulnerable due to its own insecurities. Let us live for the church that Jesus lives for !! Amen

Pseudo – church ?

It seems as if we have shifted far away from what Jesus really meant by church. We spend time in one church and then when the pastor gets up our nose or we are not happy with someone or something, then it is time to move on and shop at another church. We are ruining the body of Christ and He as our head must be so sad. When a new church venue opens up, then all go rushing off to get the flavour of the month and when that does not satisfy, then we spit it out and find another church to prey on. It seems that we have lost the art of family and sharing no matter how hard it might seem to get. I woke up last night thinking again about church and wondering whether we are just a psuedo church and have lost the art of real community. Something like the Acts 2 church which must have been messy and a struggle but they were willing to die for it. We no longer die for the church, we just go to another and allow it to die and the one before that we have left stumbling dies as well.

How can we turn tis around in the consumer world that we live in. Maybe the only way is to educate the next generation of pastors and leaders not to make the same mistakes again.

The world has to turn and so does the church but with a sense of dignity and openness to God’s Holiness and family orientation.

It is time to rethink the whole thing of church and then to try and become what Jesus really intended in the beginning.

Love and peace

Peter