on churching

just got back from watching the iHeart film.
it was incredible.
So much passion.
So much awesome.
SO. many. people.

There was a really good quote from Reuben Morgan.
I can't remember it entirely, but it's paraphrased roughly as such:
"The Message is perfect. The message is infallible. The message is complete. So there must be something wrong with the way people are telling it."

I love that. The only reason billions of people in the world aren't running to God with everything they have is because we're really, really, really bad at telling people about Him. All the successful witnessing and conversions are direct results of God's work.

I've read a lot about the "Local Church" lately.
How important it is, how integral it is to have a Local Church for our walk with God.
And Hilllsong is here showing us that the "Local Church" isn't a building, isn't a sunday morning worship service, it's US.

I want to start a Local Church that doesn't "do" church.
I want to start a "local church" that has a sunday morning service that consists of some musical worship and a quick sermon.
And then every other day of the week, i want my local church to have small groups for believers to actually grow.
And then every other day of the week, i want my local church to actually DO something. To volunteer. To serve. To love.
I don't want a local church that collects a tithe on sunday mornings and then structures a budget around that.
I want a local church that consists of its members giving unconditionally regardless of what day it is, and one where the "operating budget" is a teeny, tiny, sliver of what is actually collected.
I want a local church that sends anyone and everyone to the corners of the earth for the sole purpose of loving other people.

i want a church that the people invest in.
i want a church where there is no "inside" and where there is no "outside".
i want a church that is everyone.

I realize that there is a lot of "me" in this post.
I apologize. It's late. I'm emotional. This is my 100th blog post since January 9th, 2006, when I was a highschool freshman riding a school bus to and from somersworth highschool every day.