Church

Why can't churches act like people who are following Christ? I know that church is full of sinners who have been saved by grace. However it seems like people who say they follow Christ and even are in leadership don't seem to care about how Jesus taught us to live. All they want to do is bicker and pick fights with each other. No wonder the world doesn't take the church seriously. I feel like the church needs to change drastically to become the place that Jesus would want it to be.

Following Jesus the best I can,
Mike

Religion

"Religion can be the enemy of God."
Bono Quote

Isn't it strange that the thing that we do to worship God and understand Him can be the thing that can also lead us away from God. It can lead us to making false gods. Sometimes when we put God into boxes to understand him we make this "box god" and start to worship it. How do we move away from this, to woshiping the Holy Triune God.

Learning to follow Jesus more everyday,

Mike

Honesty

Today I was talking to my beautiful wife and we were talking about what we would like to see church be. It seems in our experiences and the experiences of our friends that the church is a place where people can't fully be trusted. What if the church became a place where instead of putting on a false facade, we actually became a place where we were honest. A place where we could admit that we were fallen people who all needed help. When are we going to stop playing church and actually start following Jesus. When will we stand up and say to fellow believers "My name is _______ and I am a sinner who falls short everday, however I continually strive to be more like Jesus everyday and follow in the path he set before me."
Another thing we would love to see and will strive to have happen is to teach the fellow believers that we minister to is that our lives are the most important witness that we have. So often its seems in the religion of Christianity we have this idea that what we say we believe is the most important thing. However the truth is that is only a little piece of it. I would say that the most important thing is how we live our lives. To me that shows what we really believe, to me the actions of a person show their true heart more than the words that they utter. The question then comes how do we as disciples of Christ learn to live our faith and share it with our living rather than trying to talk to the world about what we believe.

So what is our dream to have a church that loves God, loves eachother and loves the world. I think all of the other things I talked about and will talk about deal with this. Love God, Love Eachother and Love the World.

Following Jesus the best I can,

Mike