Especially for Christian leaders, if our friends are not becoming the church then there is something wrong. There is either something wrong with the way we are following Christ or there is something wrong with the way we are doing church, but church is to be the representation of Jesus himself in the world. That’s what Jesus said, that we his body, his hands and feet. He is the head. So when we look at Jesus’ ministry he actually was not that, the religious people were actually pretty turned off by him but who were attracted to Jesus were the average people who had gotten themselves in all kinds of moral messes, financial messes, they were partying, they were screwing up sexually and yet for some reason they were attracted to him. That’s why the religious leaders said, they had a derogatory term for Jesus, they called him “the friend of sinners”. Well if we who are supposedly following Christ and becoming his body as we follow him together are not seeing the same kind of impact in the world around us where people are gravitating toward following Jesus because there is something life giving about him, then we are not representing him well. So we’ve got to change something – either the way we are following Christ or the way we are doing church or the way we are engaging with our friends and neighbors.
Are Your Friends Becoming the Church?
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