What's wrong with this picture?

I love dreaming of a Church (as the Body of Christ) involved in all facets of life where life is lived and with the people we live with in the world. While those in the church often declare they are involved in all facets of living with the reached and unreached, we have not done all that good. We do really well at compartmentalizing various aspects of our lives - church worship & involvement, family life, work and play.. On the other hand, we do really poorly as a church (the Body of Christ) integrating in the world with the unreached. In the end, our attempts to live holy lives for Jesus we have resulted in incomplete and shallow lives with our neighbors and others.

Alan Hirsch suggests, "When we look at our networks, which are an essential aspect of organic structures, we will see that the church must structure itself around the ebb and flow of the believers life. Existing relationships with believers and unbelievers alike become the very fabric of the church."

We desperately need a wake up call in the church. We have for far too long kept our members so busy in the church ministries that we have no time to be in the world. We have our church life, our family life and our work life. We end up with no time or life with those who need Jesus!