Summary: While it might seem like the church is a natural place for God's kingdom to flourish on earth, that's not always the case. We sometimes act like the church is a club that affects what we do for a day or two each week, like a cruise ship where we go to have our needs served or like an organization that primarily exists to do good works... but that was never God's plan. Rather, the church should be a place where people come to experience the transcendent love, life and majesty of Jesus Christ and be transformed because if it. This week, Pastor Coffey reminds us what we can learn from the earliest Christians - that we should ultimately make the church a place where people can be molded by the gospel and brought nearer to God.
