If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery The pursuit of Christianity is often to make disciples of “our church.” Too often though, this focus modifies our focus and our message away from God and onto us. Or at least our group of disciples and the way we do things. Our message takes on the shadow of something like “you will really like our programs” or “our preacher with his golden tongue.” We sometimes offer the warning of God’s imminent return and his wrath toward all those who “didn’t believe.” Or, in our more magnanimous moments, we might offer that God loves those we seek and how they might return that love by believing in Jesus. Those are acceptable but not fully imbued with the call of our God. In short, we all too often short change the desires of God, turning Christianity into a contest
Ramblings and observations