I work part-time with a local church. The other part of my working hours I work with an organisation that is determined to take the most important message, that people need to hear, to the very ends of the earth. A couple of weeks ago I joined a team that went into North Africa.
Bliss
That sums up the time I travelled with the team.
Is the local church less bliss? It shouldn't be but in my experience it is.
Why is that? Are the people in the church boring? No. Not at all. Many are very inspiring (some are not).
If you weigh the ins and outs of churchlife against the focussed, radical, unified efforts of a group of people to reach the lost it starts to make sense why working with a church is less bliss.
Weigh it and you'll understand.
Many in the church have lost it. As one dear friend put it yesterday when he commented om my message of a couple of weeks ago titled "why we are to spread the Good News": "I don't appreciate people telling me what it is that I have to do. Paul was commisioned to take the Good News to the world but that doesn't necessarily mean that I have to do the same".
Milling this over, sadness fills my heart. Fear, Individuality and my right to express this the way I feel comfortable with, cocooning with my friends, making sure never to upset anyone and more bla, bla is not going to do the trick.
If I ever have to choose, I will choose the lost.
What will you choose?
