My church spends a lot of time trying to figure this out. We’ve tried this and that, and all of it sounds good. Yet, I am convinced that processes, formulas, whatever you want to call them really aren’t as near as important as the church being who it is supposed to be. We focus quite a bit on how to do things, but very little time on who we are supposed to be.

We complicate it, when it really is a simple concept: Be as Christ would be. And to understand what that is means to study Scripture, to pray to Him and hear what He has to say, and to share with each other what we hear Christ saying. Why can’t churches simply practice these things together, and just go from there? Why do we need to focus on models or processes?

“Love community and you will kill it. Love your brother and you will build it.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer