I've heard people say many times - "I like Jesus, I just don't like the Church." People have good reason to not like churches. After all, they're full of broken, sinful people like us. Yet if the Spirit of Christ is IN a church, then He can change, heal, and unite the most broken of souls.
So this begs a question - where would Jesus go to church? What type of church could you find Jesus today? Would it be traditional, contemporary, big, small, cool, affluent, poor? Where would Jesus choose to be? What type of church could we find Him?
The simple answer can be - His Spirit can be found in any "type" of church. Yet, there are certain things a church MUST have for Jesus to be dwelling there permanently. And if they're NOT there, I'm not sure the Spirit of Christ is there either.
Sunday we continue our Lenten series, "Last Days." We're looking at the Last Days of Jesus' earthly life in the Gospel of Mark. In them He has some very important things to say to us about how we should live and follow Him. We've already talked about prayer and Christ as Lord of our lives. This Sunday we'll see what Jesus has to say about Church. The title of the message is "Jesus' Traditional Church."
We hope you, your family, and friends can be there. And please don't forget, Sunday April 17th, Palm Sunday, Bellwether will be chartered as church. All who have joined and will join on that day will be charter members. We're planning a celebration and church-wide lunch afterwards. We hope you'll invite family and loved ones to be part of that special day.
Have a great weekend, and we hope to see you at our church Sunday....where you'll find Jesus too.
So this begs a question - where would Jesus go to church? What type of church could you find Jesus today? Would it be traditional, contemporary, big, small, cool, affluent, poor? Where would Jesus choose to be? What type of church could we find Him?
The simple answer can be - His Spirit can be found in any "type" of church. Yet, there are certain things a church MUST have for Jesus to be dwelling there permanently. And if they're NOT there, I'm not sure the Spirit of Christ is there either.
Sunday we continue our Lenten series, "Last Days." We're looking at the Last Days of Jesus' earthly life in the Gospel of Mark. In them He has some very important things to say to us about how we should live and follow Him. We've already talked about prayer and Christ as Lord of our lives. This Sunday we'll see what Jesus has to say about Church. The title of the message is "Jesus' Traditional Church."
We hope you, your family, and friends can be there. And please don't forget, Sunday April 17th, Palm Sunday, Bellwether will be chartered as church. All who have joined and will join on that day will be charter members. We're planning a celebration and church-wide lunch afterwards. We hope you'll invite family and loved ones to be part of that special day.
Have a great weekend, and we hope to see you at our church Sunday....where you'll find Jesus too.
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