It’s Not Your Church!

R. Scott Clark with some wise words on how to view your local church and what that has to do with it's mission to make disciples and reproduce itself. He writes:

Yes, church is a place where we gather but it’s also a place where we send. We must do both. It’s not an either/or proposition. The church is not for us. The church is for Christ’s glory. The fields are white unto harvest. The church is the divinely institution for that harvest. How can we refuse our Lord? How can we refuse to extend his kingdom? Have we talked so much about “this kingdom work” and “that kingdom work” that we’ve forgotten that the church is the ONLY institution to which Christ gave the keys of the kingdom? Wouldn’t it ironic if we were obsessed with extending his kingdom through every institution except the one institution to which he gave the gospel and the sacraments? It would be more than ironic, it would be tragic.

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