Inviting

I reposted a post this week on my personal page. It went like this:

“Don’t just invite people to church.

Invite them to lunch.

Invite them to your table or patio.

Invite them into your life!

BE THERE FOR THEM.

We—not our building—are the church!”

Can I get an AMEN!

One thing I have learned—the most valued thing I have learned-since taking a step back from the ‘traditional’ church structure, is how much wider CHURCH is, how much bigger and fuller being a Christian is than what we experience within the narrow domain of a brick and mortar building on Sunday morning.

Church should not just be the place you go for an hour a week. Church should not just be your congregation in your small corner of the world. Church should not be limited to the confines of your congregation nor your denomination. God is bigger, so much bigger, than that!

Church should be the way that we live our life out everyday…as followers of Christ.

We should ‘be church’ in the way we interact with our neighbor, with our friends, with our family, with strangers. We should ‘be church’ in the way we share love and compassion, the way we deal with trails and tribulations, the way that we walk through the world. We should ‘be church’ in our hospitality and our grace. We should ‘be church’ in our best and in our worst as we stand with others in their best and their worst. in this is the wholeness of Christ. In our broken, in our best, in our Sunday best and in our yoga pants, we are the church when show the love of Christ through our actions to all those we are in contact with.

Church is not just a building, or a congregation, or one denomination, CHURCH is a way of walking through the world as followers of Christ.

Let us be church!