We build tall buildings and stock them with safe people. We go there and we sing our songs and we pray to our God and we read awesome stories about the things our Savior did. We say we want Christ in our hearts and we say we want to live life the way He did. We say we are a church, the Body of Christ in this world. We say we follow Him and are His hands and feet in this world.
Levi gave a large dinner at his home for Jesus. Everybody was there, tax men and other disreputable characters as guests at the dinner. The Pharisees and their religion scholars came to his disciples greatly offended. "What is he doing eating and drinking with crooks and "sinners'?" Jesus heard about it and spoke up, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick?
I'm here inviting outsiders, not insiders--an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out."
Luke 5:29-31
Jesus didn't come to preach from a pulpit. He didn't stay in the temple and call everyone to Him. He went out into the streets and found the lame, the sick, the blind, the lost sinners. He went to them and met them on their level. He reached out and touched them and they were healed. He blessed them and forgave them of their sins. He embraced them and sent them on their way restored... made whole.
How does your church operate? Is it hidden inside comfortable walls? Do you only work with the healthy? Do you only preach to the converted? Does the ministry of your church look like the ministry of Jesus Christ our Lord?
If so... why not? If the church is really body of Christ, then we need to have arms that reach out for those hurt and lost in our society. If we really are the Body of Christ, where are the legs that take the Gospel to the lost? If we really are the Body of Christ than why are we sitting on the sidelines on our behinds doing so little. Jesus came to minister to the lost. As a Christ-follower, where is your ministry at?
If We Are The Body
It's crowded in worship today
As she slips in
Trying to fade into the faces
The girls' teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know
But if we are the Body Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a way
Jesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the Body of Christ
If we are the body Why arent His arms reaching
Why arent His hands healing Why arent His words teaching
And if we are the body Why arent His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
Jesus is the way
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