Pendulum Swing

But we weren't in charge.

That was the whole point - the whole revelation in the first place. We are not in charge.

And yet we are not nothing. That was God's whole point. When he looks at us, he doesn't see nothing. He sees Jesus. And Jesus came to change the world. And when he left, he put us in charge of that.

Jesus established the Church as a means of accomplishing his mission of restoring the world to a right relationship with himself. So what did that mean for us? How could we be the Church He wanted us to be, on mission together with Him?

We spent time dreaming big - and doing everything that felt right. We got behind social justice causes, we sent a mission team to Africa, we served the youth group, we read Donald Miller. We broke bread together, we went to the beach together, our families grew - but our group did not.