When Jesus was around, he did most of his ministry on foot going to people rather than bringing people to him. He used culturally relevant stories that made sense in people’s lives. The temple, the building, was reserved for the holy, the pure, the godly to enter into God’s presence.

Isn’t it interesting that the modern church in America is leaning towards the opposite scenario. We open the doors of the church to the unholy and ask them come inside our house, stepping out of their comfort zones and their natural settings and ask them to watch our media clip and listen to our story and then join the folds. We rarely walk the hillsides of our communities to meet people in their own natural settings. We tend to make them come to us…

I don’t think it’s wrong.
In fact, I’m a proponent of both models.
I think you can meet people where they’re at, even if it means bringing them to where you’re at.

But I also wonder if the church has done too good of a job rallying people around building buildings and maybe not so good of a job rallying the people outside of our buildings, outside of our buildings.

bottom line…meet them in a bar, meet them at the movies, hit them with your postcard so they can come watch your big screen. just reach people. reach them now. life is too short to have no model…