Oh, That’s Nice

If you go to church or work for a church, how many times have heard about what the “guys down the street” or some church hundreds of miles away have going on and thought condescendingly, “oh, that’s nice”?

From sports teams to financial training classes to citywide ministries to free coffee on Sunday mornings, you may have seen or heard about something and the attention it’s being given and decided you weren’t going to comprehend what the big deal is.

A lot of times, you may have uneasy feeling about these things because your church doesn’t operate that way.  If they do, you probably find yourself on the defensive end.  Either way, it’s easy to miss the bigger picture.

Churches should be in the business of reaching and helping people.  They may have different ways of doing this.  Some of these ways may be outside-the-box thinking, but the purpose needs to be the same.  It’s about making people receptive to the message of Jesus Christ. 

Whether it’s through a series of weekend lectures, a revival, a bar-b-que or lake day, something different will get reach someone different.  Each church has a part in Kingdom-building, and we need to know this, embrace this, encourage one another and run with our ideas.  This shouldn’t be a civil war, but it should be a conglomerate of congregations coming together to emerge victorious over the enemy.

The thought of “oh, that’s nice” needs to be abandoned.  It is nice.  If it’s a success, that means it’s reaching people.  Let it be and do your thing.  God may have a different answer for your church, so go to Him and find out what it is.

I feel like I need to type a smiley here so this sounds less harsh. 

Here goes…

:)