Church

First, If you have an hour watch this:

I'm struggling to know what church means. This video really explains what I believe about church. As I continue to uncover what church is and what I would like to see in a church that I go to, Francis Chan basically sums up what I would like to see in a church that I go to. We the people are the Church (notice the capitals.) He talks a lot about reading scripture and explaining it to Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. The big idea that got me is exegesis versus eisegesis, or taking text and finding the meaning in it versus taking what we want to say and using bits of misinterpreted text to prove it. It's so true. He says "What would your life look like if you started with the Word of God." Another point that he brings up is the fact that church has lost its focus for being fishers of men. The reason for this is the service that we have created. From scripture, it says to make disciples, love one another. I have groups of friends that I hang out with and love and we disciple each other. They are my "church", not the building with people that I am acquaintances with. The Church is meant to be in the world, living with people, loving God and loving people. At around 50:30 he goes into a list of the commands for the Church, very few of which I have experienced in my church experiences. This is not to say that some people aren't living the scriptural idea of the Church, it is something that I believe that churches have lost focus of and need to return to.


This is not the idea that I wrote about forgetting yesterday, I still haven't remembered that, but this was a good one to go off of when I watched the video this morning.

Current Jam:
I didn't know which one to use, so I used both. ps. the RELEVANT Studio version has Kevin from Pentatonix on cello and vocal percussion. word.