I just had this interesting idea.
For a church to have greater impact on a community what if they decided to have an community committee for the unbelievers.
Now the first thing you would wonder would be, what in the world would they do. (I honestly just thought of this a minute ago and it's just an idea but...)
I think basically it would be led by someone who is very in touch with the surrounding community. They would have to be someone who was a very good people person so that they would know a good number of people that were not church-goers or at least not believers. The person that headed it of course would be a believer, but would have to be a mature one that was in touch with what people that weren't in the church thought and felt about the church. Speaking of the other "members" of the committee, there wouldn't actually have to be a specific member group, although it would be very interesting and possibly benificial to have one, but mostly it would be the one or two leaders from the church heading the committee that would go into the community and perhaps take polls, and generally communicate with the general public to find out what kinds of problems and issues they were facing so that they could bring them up and the church could be of more help to the community. In this way the church would be lifted up in the public eye and hopefully as another good effect people would be brought to the Lord through the committee's leader or leaders because they could possibly be one of the only contacts that some people have relating to anything that is of God.
Basically this would have an intended end-result of a ministry type of committee that would represent the communittee to the church board or at least the church members.
Haven't thought this over a whole lot, I just thought I would throw it out there and see what you guys thought. Leave comments!!!
Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
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Any church should be very aware of it's neighborhood's environment/problems (unfortunately we are anything but). Remember what the first Christians were doing. They didn't study the Bible much. They were doing primarally two things: 1) Spreading the Gospel 2) Helping others, primarilly widows and orphans (read Acts!). Today's church has so completely forgotten this and fallen away from this idealogy and that is pathetically sad.
I think they could have been studying the Bible, it may have just not mentioned it?
I mean, they did have the whole old testament.
I think that this would not be an answer to church's lack of reaching out, but just something else that can help give the unbelievers a closer link to the church so that they can bring more to christ. This doesn't take the need for people to live missionally (with an overarching theme of bringing people to christ.)
Definitly not a cure-all answer, but a ministry that a few people could speciallize in and have a greater impact for their church and community.
Mijah, I was not suggesting they did not study the Bible, only emphasizing the original emphasis on ministering to the needy. It is obvious from Paul's letters that the churches were greatly interested in different theological studies. My point is, and I believe you agree with this from what you said, that we should not focus so entirely on studying. "Faith is dead without works."
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