Saturday, August 25, 2007

What Is The Church?

How many times have you worried about someone who was not saved, so you invited them to church? I have come to the realization that church in the form that God created it, may not be the best place to witness to an unsaved person. I know I am going to step on some toes, and I may be way off base. After looking at the first churches, I’ve realized that a church is a group of saved people who are meeting together. Like any club or group that meets regularly, a church has purposes and goals. The purposes and goals of the first churches were: the building up and edification of the members; instructing and training their members; and sending out men to tell the world about Jesus.

On a personal note, I'm looking forward to church tomorrow. There are times when I feel the need to go to church simply because I need the positive and uplifting feeling that church brings. Sometimes church does not bring those and feelings, and if you are in a church that causes you to feel demoralized and gloomy on a regular basis, you should seriously pray about making a change.

1 comment:

Dana said...

Amen , the Goal of the Church is to Build us , edify us and to Make us full Grown in Christ.
Eph. 4:12 - For the   perfecting of the saints unto the work of the   ministry,   unto the   building up of the   Body of Christ,
Eph. 4:13 - Until we all   arrive at the   oneness of the  faith and of the full   knowledge of the  Son of God, at a   full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of  Christ,
Col. 1:28 - Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ;

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