What should Church realy look like?

"A lot of people think the church is three songs and a sermon. But if you want to have an impact on people, you've got to do it differently."
Craig Gross (AKA The Porn Pastor)

This quote from the Craig Gross, a pastor with an evangelical outreach ministry among the porn industry, really got my attention.

They started a ministry in Las Vegas without opening a church!!!

"A lot of people are bothered by the fact that we call ourselves a church when we don't have a storefront. But long gone are the days when we could expect people to come to our church just because we had a building and a cool band."

This made me wonder - do we perhaps put too much emphasis on the building and the happenings inside the building? Or, should it be more about what the people that meet at that building do in and around their community that should have the emphasis?

Check out this "Evangelism Message". It is another way of sharing the Gospel with someone. See where the emphasis is.



YES! Repentance and Trust in Jesus is the only way - but what is the result of your salvation? An outward manifestation of an inward experience. You want to DO stuff... Are YOU doing enough? Or ANYTHING at ALL?

Eish!

Its been a (busy) while...

To all my Blogger Fans... (silence, except for the sound of crickets ;-)

Had a hectically (is that a word) busy few days... Did 22 hours overtime in one weekend - eish!
Not normal for me, but with projects at work increasing - things are just gonna get more busy.

So, if I do not get to my blogging - that is unfortunately life... I will just have to learn to live with it ;-)

But in the times we are living in I think South Africa is a great place to have a job. I have a job and can even work overtime in these financially difficult times we are in. RSA has escaped most of the worldwide economic fallout, but there is still people suffering who has lost jobs or can not afford their bills anymore...

I'm currently using the www.lifechurch.tv material - "Life.Money.Hope - Biblical Advice in Difficult Times" as a teaching message during the giving part of our Sunday services.

Check it out if you have time...

Religion vs Lifestyle

"Religion is hanging around the cross, Christianity is hanging on the cross."
— Stephen Hill

I have always proclaimed Christianity should be a Lifestyle and NOT a Religion. This quote just so vividly reminded me of that again. "Christianity is hanging on the cross"... it is about sacrificing yourself for what you believe in.

This video "Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible" from YouTube was also an awesome eye opener for me AGAIN (I love how God repeats stuff until you get it).



If we are to have a Lifestyle of Christianity instead of a Religion - we MUST be reaching out to as many people as possible around us for the Kingdom of God. In every way in every circumstance we should be ready to share the Good News.

Are you sharing it as often as possible?

I was wondering whether it would be OK to start sharing the Gospel with those irritating Telemarketers, but initially felt it would be just a way for me to put them off from talking to me... Now I am wondering if it should not rather be an imperative to share it with them.

What are your thoughts on this?