Its AD 30 Again…
Reggie McNeal reflects on the amazing growth of the church in other parts of the world and then asks - do we really want to see God’s kingdom come in the western world. Its a good question.
He says if we do then “we need to shift from looking at the kingdom thru church lens to looking at the church thru kingdom lens.”
That strikes me as a huge key. As he goes on to say ‘this changes everything!’
This is a great video and well worth a look. He reminds us that our strategic planning and clever ideas are not as important as we sometimes like to think.
A few quotes:
“Is God most at home in the church?”
“Does God look at church stats to see how things are going? Does God really count how many showed up on Sunday?”
“God takes attendance by who’s missing.”
“A churchcentric view of the world sees ‘church’ as the destination. If we think the church is the destination then we don’t get it.”
“Why do we spend so much money on ourselves?”
“What’s the point of the people of God, if we are not the point?”
“Don’t have an evangelism strategy. Give up on that! It feels like a drive by shooting anyway. Instead have a ‘blessing’ strategy”
“Bless 3 people this week and make sure one of them doesn’t deserve it”
“Mostly house churches, because they dont know how to do church properly” ha ha ha!!
Comment by Mark E — May 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am