First off, one thing I don't want this blog to become is a place where people accuse and argue and get all up under each others skin and stuff. I know that may be difficult when talking about certain topics such as these but please understand the main reason and purpose for this blog is to search deeper into truth, encourage one another to chase god, and to bring up topics which we can all struggle with, find the answer, and to own it in our faith and our walks.
oook. so, THANK YOU everyone for commenting I hope we all get something out of it. I don't wish to touch too much on whether someone in the ministry has encouraged certain people to not attend foothills or not because like I said I really don't want this blog to become a place of accusations. I have my opinions on if that happened or not, and ya'll can have your own opinions. Lets not discuss it here and rather if it remains to eat at ya'll, talk to the people directly involved, one on one, and there we go k?
Sweet.
One question I do have, mainly as reaction to Brians comment, yet id love it if everyone gave their own input as well. For that reason i believe ill make this a completely new blog, hoping that you guys will comment on it. WOW a lot of background info, I'm sorry haha. So I'll agree that there are people that go to church in a way of being selfish about it, "picking and choosing", all them goods. I'll even admit to being one of those people a lot of the time in the sense that I really don't serve too much anymore. At church. I think I try and justify it in my mind because I work at C28 where I preach the gospel and serve all the time. I end up fixing it in my head that I should take the time to relax when I have a break in my schedule, rather than to serve at my church. So guys, what's your opinion? This is something i have been thinking about and would like your suggestions. I do have deep relationships with a few, which in my opinion is better than a buuuunch. So its not like I go to a church that I'm completely detached from you know?
Any-who, the main thought I want to bring up and find the answer to is.... is it so wrong to go to a place or multiple places, be it groups or churches, that you go to only to hear god, learn about god, worship god, and at the same time you don't give, you don't serve, and you don't establish DEEP relationships. Is that wrong? What do you all think? More importantly what does the bible say about this? Are we as christians meant to stay loyal to a home church?
From my understanding the church is not a building, it's not the people with in a certain building, it's not under any human leaders. The church is the body of christ. The church is the people right? The church is all the believers united as one under the rule of the father. To me what we call churches, foothills, journey, skyline, cross point, those are all fellowships, and every single one makes up the church.
Alright I'm rambling. Comment on any of my questions and also even comment on anything i've said. You don't have to comment on just the questions, feel free to say anything. But I encourage you and will do myself to search after this and see where lines up in the bible. Lets discuss it!!!
3 comments:
As far as biblically, i dont know this for sure, but i dont think that there were "worship leaders" or "tech teams" or anything like that in bible times, so i think that serving the church is different than being in ministry... because before the church was like.... Jesus or Paul or Peter teaching a biiiiig group of people on a hill... not meeting every sunday, having everything all planned out perfectly, having cool lighting, having people in "ministry" so i dont think that...
and i agree that "churches" are actually moreso "fellowships" and as far as serving the true Church, i dont know what that consists of... maybe having fellowship? bringing each other closer to God? loving each other? idk
I can't recall any specific verse at the moment... i'm gonna look for stuff and comment again, the only thing biblically that I can say is that God/Jesus chose Peter (the rock) to start the church because the church needed a strong foundation to build under and for the church. The rock is significant cause of the sturdy foundation (meaning support in the form of close relationships with members of the church, and support in any other areas that you feel called to).
I'm not sure how I feel on this topic personally. I feel like building up one church that you attend shouldn't become about numbers at all. It should just be about serving where you get served, and loving openly to those who love you. Kinda giving back to the church community and building the "strong foundation" to let the church grow. I dunno. That's all I can say.
Where have you been, Spencer! You haven't blogged in forever!
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