Who Are We?
Well, it's a new year and something
that people often do at this time of year is to take stock of things. It
occurred to me (by the Spirit?) that it would be good for me to do that in
terms of our church. So, this is the first of several short inserts reflecting
on our church. This insert looks at the question, 'Who are we?'
Here's one thing that is obvious
about us. We are a small church. Is that a problem? Is that something that we
should be embarrassed about? The fact of the matter is that, for the longest
time, I was embarrassed by our size. 'Successful pastors lead (numerically)
growing churches', or so I was led to believe. But really, should we see our
small size as a problem? It is a problem if the goal is to get bigger. But is
that Jesus' goal for His churches? I really don't think so. Size is never
mentioned as a measure of success in the Bible.
We're not big, but we are the
communion of the saints. The Gospel is being taught and increasingly believed
here. We are working at being faithful disciples and good friends. All of those
things are good. There actually is much about us that is good. To be sure, there
still is much to work on, but that shouldn't stop us from feeling good about
who we are.
Next insert: 'But we don't do
anything?'
This is from a series of bulletin inserts that I wrote for my church.
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