“Ask not what you can do for your [local] church, but what you can do for the Kingdom of God.”

When Christians put the church ahead of the Kingdom they settle for the status quo and their own kind of people. When they catch a vision of the Kingdom of God their sights shift to the poor, the orphan, the widow, the refugee ‘the wretched of the earth’ and to God’s future.

Now that’s the kind of church I want to belong to. We are reviewing our Cafe Community this Sunday (hopefully the entire community will be there to participate) and this is the sort of thing I think we need to engage with. It is so easy to fall into the “church” business and not be considering the real business of the church - Gods kingdom.