Religion & Spirituality
What is church?A concert and a TED talk…? For the most part, it is something you attend, and if you’re special you get to perform at it or if you are a volunteer, you get to be involved.It's meant to do something for me… made me learn something or feel something. Or it's a means to meet and connect with people.Somehow, church helps my walk with God; it gets God off my back, or is meant to make following God in my personal life easier.Believe it or not, a lot of these things are true, in part.. But at the same time, they are not that compelling.A concert and a TED talk can be delivered online, there’s a ton better preachers and singers/musicians out there…The church is known for its abuses or its hypocrites or its entanglement with politics or the culture wars. To be honest, who wants to be a part of that?In this message, Pastor Joel attempts to help you expand your vision for what this thing called church is and consider why it matters and why we shouldn’t give up on it.