30-Minute Overview of Come and See (Faith Blueprints)

The problem is that we have gotten into the business of doing His business our way, not being “people of the Way” (see Acts 9:2).…

Believers who isolate or stay in conflict with others are a barrier to the faith. Being committed to community was never meant to be merely an option that we can add or drop.…

“irregular believers” lead the same “regular lives” as those who don’t claim to know Christ at all.

isolated living is quarreling against all wisdom (see Prov. 18:1).

Somewhere along the way of “doing church,” we forget that “being the Church” is being on mission.…

It’s not enough, Wagner says, to come once a week and hear of God’s goodness. We need to be involved in each other’s lives throughout the week.

If we come to a reverent room where we arrive on time and hush our kids but walk out of that reverent moment and live irreverent lives, what we did in that room is a mockery, and God disdains it (see Amos 5:21–24; Mal. 1:6–10; James 1:22; 1 John 3:18).…

The problem with meeting in the middle is that most of us are lousy judges of distance.

today’s “regular” church is nothing more than a gathering of regular attenders, not a transformative body of devoted disciples who are committed to doing life together—together with Jesus and together with His people.