Sometimes the best thing that one hears during the day is someone’s gentle reminder of the most important thing that we’ve got to be doing: Building the Church.
Yesterday, it came from John Piper’s blog post (by Dave Mathis) about Why ‘Do Church’?:
Martyn Lloyd-Jones on what the church is for:
The primary task of the Church is not to educate man, is not to heal him physically or psychologically…. I will go further; it is not even to make him good.
These are things that accompany salvation; and when the Church performs her true task she does incidentally educate men and give them knowledge and information…she does make them good and better than they were. But my point is that those are not her primary objectives.
Her primary purpose is not any of these; it is rather to put man into the right relationship with God, to reconcile man to God. (Preaching & Preachers, 30)
If you need a reason to do Church Online make sure that this is one of them.
Perhaps, in addition, one “success” measurement is whether this is actually happening as well (but salvation metrics is not the point).
Is your online campus or your online ministry reconciling men to God?
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Amen.
I hope our online ministry is reconciling men AND women to Christ.
Not trying to be snarky, I know what you mean, but the ladies need to be in the mix as well.
Peace.
man, you get me every time on PC stuff.
Salvation metrics alone may not be the point, but atleast within a western context the combination of discipleship, evangelism, and salvation metrics may be. Atleast to provide evidence of those relationships being built.
so the goal is evangelism… which can't happen in an atmosphere where there are only Christians… sounds like online is a great place to connect with and interact as the church