Contagion

...if any of us have this thing figured out. The day I say that I have "church" figured out, you can shoot me. It just seems to me that so many people think they have figured it out. Some are continuing to do things the way they always have and they will never change. Other have started a house church and feel like they have figured it out. And others are just taking an old concept and revamping it to look cooler. And then there are those of us that are pretty much taking the third option but also revitalizing the philosophy of who the church was made to be. But do we have it figured out? And is what we're doing "better" than the next church?

In my opinion, if what you are doing is propelling people to be more effective missionaries during the week, the form that your church takes on whatever day of the week you choose to meet doesn't really matter. If the people in your faith community are really being missionaries, then people will be getting connected to Jesus and you will be doing what you are called to.

I think any kind of church can get stuck just thinking about themselves. It takes a very intentional leader to guide a church to stay out of that ghetto, no matter what form you choose. It could be 10 of you meeting in a living room and it so quickly can get inward focused. Or it could be 4,000 in multiple locations and all you care about is what happens on Sunday.

The point is this: the church is the embodyment of Christ in the world. If we aren't in the world, then how will people see Jesus? We all take an hour or two out of each week to meet together. What really matters is what happens during the other 166 hours of the week.