Tuesday, June 7, 2011

STARS


We have to remember at all times who we are as a church and what God has put us on
Highway 50 in Kenosha to be/do. We may be called to do several things actually, but at the core of who we are is to be a group of people who are focused on people far from God. Our mission is Jesus' mission - 'to seek and save the lost.'

That's why our KFA mission statement is: 'Making it easy to find and experience God.' That is not to say we believe it will be ultra-easy for everyone to come to faith given their bondages and ruts and worldly entanglements; that is not to say 'taking up a cross to follow Jesus' will always be a snap; but our goal as KFA-ers is to live lives in such a way that people will see us walking thru difficult circumstances and facing uncertain times with such grace and peace and strength that they will be drawn to faith because of our lives - and in that way, we will make it easier for them to find and experience God.

Our focus must remain clear. When a church becomes busy with 'stuff,' it often believes it's doing the right thing. A church can be filled with activities and meetings and songs and margin-less calendars that don't lead anywhere near spiritual transformation.

A church's focus must never be more about 'come here' than it is about 'go out there.' It must never be about our own music, our own films, our own books or our own products. Some of those are helpful in educating and ministering to believers, but we must never become steeped in our own Christian sub-culture. We must never become 'safe.' We must never become 'settled.'

God asks that we be influencers in a 'crooked and perverse generation, in which we shine like stars in the universe.' (Philippians 2:14, 15)

And be blessed.

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