Sublime

Lord, deliver us from easy answers, packaged programs, and systems that minimize our desperate need for You to be involved every step of the way—even when (and especially when) we are actually doing it right! Jesus, You have promised to build Your church Your way. Help us do whatever we must do to let You do that! In Your name I pray, Amen!

“We submit joyfully to our leaders as our leaders serve us humbly.” There is the dance of mutual love in a gospel-centered—and therefore gospel-ordered—community. What have we done when we approach and receive each other this way? We have, as Peter says, clothed ourselves in humility. We sinful, broken Christians in messy community together are the

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. The main thing is freedom.” Bill Gove

Our goal as people who follow Christ should be no less than becoming people who are madly in love with God.

“If you will go after the lost, I will build the church.”

But at this moment in the life of the Euro-tribal churches, we need to balance our primary posture of ecclesiocentrism and discern where the Spirit is calling us to go lightly and participate in the life of the neighborhood.

There is one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), and it is not the pastor or his church programs.