Food for Thought

I got an e-mail this week with some very interesting quotes in it and I think they need to be shared. One of my goals as a leader of the church is that I want the community to see the church being the church, not just doing church, and these quotes help reinforce my reasoning.

• “I want to make a difference. I don’t want to talk about being like Jesus. I want to be like Jesus. I have yet to find a church that really does what Jesus said to do. Most churches I have been a part of waste their time arguing about what Jesus said.”
  
  
• “I want to be part of a church that matters. I want to be part of a church that saves both lives and souls. I want a church to teach me how to help as many people as I can.”
  
  
• “Real religion isn’t about who is ’saved’ and who is ‘going to hell.’ Real religion is who is loved, and fed, and listened to, and respected. It isn’t enough to pray for somebody’s soul when they are hungry and sick. The church I used to go to regularly prayed for the hungry, but I never really prayed until I prayed with the hungry before serving them a meal.”
  
  
• “A passive Christian faith is of little or no interest. It is the urgency of the need that results in a radical discipleship.”