Into a broken world

I closed my message last Sunday with a simple thought. Several people have emailed me this week asking for the quote. Here it is:

THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE

THAT WHICH WAS LOST. Luke 19:10 NIV

When we seek out that which is lost, we are loving our neighbor as we love ourselves and valuing people as God values them. If we as the Church keep this as our core focus and mission, we will never become an empty building or mere tourist attraction. We will be so occupied and fulfilled with doing what the Church was placed on this earth to do – taking what is inside the Church out into a broken world – that our doors will never close. The lost will be drawn to us because of our open arms and our loving, safe environment.

- Christina Caine, Stop Acting Like a Christian, Just Be One (Regal, 2007)

Have you thought about how we could take what is inside

the church out into a broken world?