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02/03/10
Moving around
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Posted by: site admin @ 8:30 am

    Waking up early I read some pages from the book Ate with Sinners.  I ran across a fact that caused my to read it a couple of times to make sure I had read it correctly.  The author said that in the first fifteen years of Rick Warren’s ministry his church relocated 79 times.  Yes, 79 times.  That is a lot of moving around.  The author used this fact to show that the Church is not a building but a body.  A moving living body is not only alive but it moves.  The author of this book is driving home the point that the Church of Jesus Christ must go to the people and not expect people to come to it.  

          There is much truth in the thought that the Church of Jesus Christ must reach outside to the lost and not just wait for them to come to us.  I am delighted to be a part of a Church that is attempting be moving and out among the world.  I continue to wrestle with how and where we can reach out but we are making an attempt.  I pray the Church of the Living Savior will not just put up buildings and think all is well.  Indeed followers of Jesus must eat among the lost and to do that the Church must go out into the midst of our world. 

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