God’s Church

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).

Jesus is the head of the church. Whenever the church gets this wrong, everyone suffers. The church suffers. The world who needs Jesus suffers.

“The Church, as a whole, is doing more and more. And the church, as a whole, is making less and less of a difference” – @simplechurch.

While I don’t claim to have “the” answers or be any sort of an expert on the issue of solving the problems of the church’s relevance in a post-modern, post-denominational, post-Christian world, I do think there are some things for us to consider.

• If it ain’t working, stop!!! We’re wasting people’s time, talents, and finances. If whatever it is we’re currently doing that’s not producing the results we want to experience – STOP!!! 
• Get strategic. Know what it is that we are trying to produce, and if it’s not producing the results, then don’t do those things anymore. The purpose of the Little Church and Lakewoodgrace is to “Make Disciples and Grow Faithful Disciples Who Share the Love of Christ with All People.”
• Pray. God really does answer prayer. Seriously. Pray. The church needs to pray. It’s not about human ingenuity. It’s not doing our best. It’s God’s church. He already has a plan. It’s our job to execute God’s plan. And in order to know God’s plan, we must pray and listen.

God’s placed our churches for a reason – and that reason can’t be become a totally irrelevant relic in the community. God has a plan and purpose for the Little Church and Lakewoodgrace being here. God wants us to be effective in “Making Disciples and Growing Faithful Disciples Who Share the Love of Christ with All People.

That means that God has a solution to the issues we’ve been dealing with. God knows what to do with his facilities. God knows we need to remodel, repair, or build anew. Not only does God know we need to update our facilities, God knows how he is going to pay for it!

It’s time for us to pray, listen, evaluate, and plan.

As Forrest Gump once said, “That’s all I want to say about that.”