Attract, Attractive,Attracting, Attraction, Attractional (not a word, so I'm told)
Do any of these words (or not words) describe your church?
Are you attracting people to your church? Are you attracting people to Jesus? Which one or both does your congregation (75%) basically own as the priority. Be careful how you answer this one.
Now I'm falling over the cliff - may God help me survive the fall. It is time for the Church in American to quit trying so hard to attract people to their church. It is time for the church to begin attracting people to Jesus! Those churches that attract people to their church also claim they are attracting people to Jesus. Do they (we, me, us) really have a congregation engaged in showing Jesus to the world so that Jesus can redeem the world through our lives?
Is the Body of Christ that you are a part of, attractive by way of attracting people to Jesus?
Please be honest, Jesus is also reading my blog.
posted by Bob Carder @ 11:41 AM
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5 Comments:
Right on!
Would love to hear from you.
Great post Bob. Have you read my similar thoughts at http://epicaugusta.typepad.com/epic/2006/12/i_no_longer_fit.html
Ooops, that link didn't all fit. The post is called, "I no longer fit" and it's at www.epicaugusta.typepad.com
Nice post. I find myself struggling with the invitational activitiies of the Gospel, and the road work. Jesus invited people to "come," and He told people to "go." Of course, He was on the "go" when he invited the disciples to "come," so I guess that really messes everything up, doesn't it?
Pastor Phil, Jesus did tell us to come (to Him) and then He told us to Go (for Him).
How we come and go in light of this sweet description of the two words (come & go)?
Now you went and opened up a can of worms.
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