We run into trouble in church sometimes when we have differences of opinions on the purpose of the church. Most people have the view that the worldwide Church (capital "c") has world evangelism as its goal. No believer will say that he is opposed to people getting saved. But when you talk to people about their local church (little "c"), the answers get fuzzier. We want new people in our church, but we love the people we already have, and look forward to seeing them at service times. We want to reach out to children who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, but we want to protect our own children from "those kids"and provide them a safe environment. We want to know that we have missionaries going to "the uttermost parts of the earth", but we also want our sanctuary to look nice and be comfortable. I have just enumerated 6 desires of a local church, and all of them are valid, but seemingly irreconcilable. What do we do about this? How do we decide which is more important?
More tomorrow.
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