God Is Good All The Time!!

The church...

I strongly suggest watching the video below! There is a part in Craig's message about the church, that I can't get over because it is so true.

Craig talked about churches in a series called "Remember" which I will post on here soon. In that message, Craig pointed out that Jesus said to "GO into the world"...not build a building and hope they come to you. So true! You have to go into the world and REACH the people.

Again, in this message below he pointed out the church. In his example, Mark chapter 2 verses 1-5:

Jesus entered Capernaum and the people heard he had come. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the Word to them. Some men came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

What Craig goes on to say is there is this man with a great need, and the people trying to listen to Jesus had their back to the men and they couldn't get inside. Wouldn't you agree that is often the message some churches send today?

"We're doing our little church thing, yep we are here together, we'll do our Experiencing God bible study, and we'll have our pot luck dinner...praise the Lord! We'll sing 'This is the day', and we'll stay away from those people back there because they aren't like us. They go to PG-13 and Rated R movies...they listen to secular music...some of them even have tattoos. We need to do our little Jesus thing over here and just stay away from those people."

While they are doing their little Jesus party of there, they are basically telling (by their actions) all "those" people that they can go to hell. We don't really care about the rest of the world's suffering, hurting, rejection, fighting.

May we, the believers and family of God, please be a people that care!! Pray for a broken heart for all people...just as Jesus loved and died for us all!