"The church gets into trouble whenever it thinks it is in the church business rather than the kingdom business. In the church business people are concerned with church activities, religious behaviour and spiritual things. In the kingdom business, people are concerned with kingdom activities, all human behaviour and everything which God has made, visible and invisible. Church people think how to get people into the church, kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world. Church people worry that the world might change the church, kingdom people work to see the church change the world."
(Howard Snyder - Liberating the church)
The main thing we need to learn is that the church is not here for me. It has a greater job - it is here for the release of the kingdom.
Our obsession with whether we like the music, the colour they paint the walls, the preaching style, the type of tea bags we use fade into irrelevance.
The church is not here to serve me.
I am here to serve God.
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