
Church is not a place you go; it’s a people you belong to and a mission you live out.
What we measure determines what we think success is.
Most churches still tend to measure by the ABCs:
ATTENDANCE, BUILDINGS and CASH (Offerings)
These are useful, but not optimal – or even biblical!
Being BIG, WEALTHY and INFLUENTIAL does not necessarily mean a church is healthy (as we have seen so graphically and too in recent years).
HOW Does God measure success?
I met Daniel Ghinn properly last year at LAUNCH South. He and his wife founded and lead Worship Works from a passion to see business transforming lives and the kingdom of God going beyond an hour on Sunday. Paul wrote to the Colossians that when we work with all our hearts as though God is our boss, it’s worship! I really enjoyed finding out more about how Daniel is helping people work for God whatever they do. Listen in to the podcast here as I find out more – we discuss the theology of work as a blessing – not a curse, as a calling – not a chore and as God’s secret weapon to reveal His ecclesia to the world that everyone can be a part of! Find out more about Worship Works at worship.works Find out more and sign up to LAUNCH at https://www.launchcatalyst.org/
The commission was directly given to the apostles but indirectly given to the ecclesia in every generation. After the early apostles died, the commission remained – and so does the authority, until it is fulfilled it will remain in force.
So they had a commission and were sent to fulfil it. In their generation the church grew like crazy and changed everything, everywhere. We have the same commission and we are sent to do it. That’s the key, they went, because they were sent. That’s an apostolic church.