A Healthy Church Reaches Out

   As believers, we are often tempted to get comfortable. We belong to a church and have Christian friends. We give our time and finances to support ministry. We may even feel that our faith is increasing as we read the Bible, pray, and worship God. While all these practices are beneficial, if we aren’t careful, we can become disconnected and inwardly focused. Our spiritual growth isn’t complete until we share it with others. 

   Jesus, Himself, set the example for us. Reaching out was His primary purpose in ministry. And everywhere He went, people gathered. They were drawn to Him – His words and His healing touch. The time Jesus spent in prayer and worship didn’t just fill Him spiritually. It prepared Him to go out into the world and minister to the needs the people, pointing them to the Heavenly Father. 

   He made His calling clear. “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17). Before He left the earth, Jesus told us that our purpose was the same – to go and make disciples of all people. 

   As a church, we can only be truly healthy if we are fulfilling our God-given purpose. He didn’t call us to be comfortable, to sit on the sidelines and watch others share His Good News. He called us to go and tell others about the free gift of eternal life, so that th ...

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