When???

When making disciples becomes a corporate Church responsibility it often ceases to be a personal responsibility.

When giving to the poor becomes a corporate church responsibility it often ceases to be a personal responsibility.

When teaching our children becomes a corporate church responsibility it often ceases to be the parents responsibility.

When reaching out to the community becomes a corporate church thing it often ceases to be every believers responsibility.

Does anyone care to really see that there is a subtle shift in responsibility taking place when responsibility for personal things becomes a corporate thing? Personal ministry and incarnational living in the world is taking a bad hit these days.

Instead of our personal involvement in the lives of people we have opted for:
Church ministries that make disciples - not us personally.
Church ministries to feed the poor - not us personally.
Church ministries to disciple our children - not us personally.
Church ministries to reach out to the lost - not us personally.

Every believer is mandated to personally make disciples, feed the poor, disciple our own children, and reach out to our lost world. The corporation is stealing our personal ministry from us. Or are we just relinquishing our rights and responsibilities from personal involvement.

When will we show believers how they should live in the world. I'm speaking of Christianity NOT Churchianity here. We do a great job teaching believers how to be good members and a terrible job at how to be a good Christian (Christ follower).