How Did We Get Here?

I spent some time tonight talking with a friend about life, faith, church and just about everything else under the sun. It is amazing how God uses unexpected people in my life to confirm His promptings and compellings.

When Jesus sent out His followers, he didn't instruct them to build huge campuses and re-carpet the gym every couple of years. He didn't tell them to make themselves at home and as comfortable as possible. Jesus never even said they should invite people to church. He told His followers to GO. They were to go into all the world. They were to take the light, life and love of Jesus to the broken, wounded and dying in the dark and lonely places. They were, as we are, to LOVE and allow Jesus to draw people to Himself through that love.

How have we as the body of Christ gotten so far away from that purpose? Jesus is prompting, compelling, and wooing me into a lifestyle of missional living. What exactly does that look like? I'm not really sure yet, but I know it involves popping my 'christian bubble' and loving tangibly in the midst of the brokenness around me.