Organic Churches

I'm reading a great book at the moment called Organic Church by a guy called Neil Cole. It's about how our churches are not doing what they were commended to do by Jesus.

It talks of how our churches expect people to come through the door, and that's where we'll talk to them about Jesus. Of how we expect people to come to us, and then we'll do our bit. We very rarely make the first move.

And this is not how Jesus wanted His church to be. He commanded us to "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations" (Matt.20:19), and this is not a passive command. It's a command for us to get out there and tell people about Jesus, not to wait for them to come to us.

Jesus didn't sit in a hut somewhere and wait for people to come to Him. He went to them. That's the attitude that we need. Our churches shouldn't be closed in, elitist establishments that wait for people to come to them to tell them about Jesus. We need to be out there telling people about Jesus where life happens, where the problems really are.

Challenging.