5/12/19 - I Love My Church

There are different places, locations, buildings that we eventually have to visit in life. Places we need to go to just because of the course of life: school, for example, or the dentist’s office. But we feel different about going to the dentist compared to say going to Disneyland. Many times we go to these places because we have to, not necessarily because we want to. Chances are when we find ourselves taking a test in school, or having a root canal we don’t respond “I Love this place!”, do we? Many people think about Church the same way they think about going to school, or say the dentist’s office. Is the Church really just a place that we feel we “have” to go to or is there more to it? What was God’s intention when He created the Church? Was that His idea about this community of people? I believe the Bible tells us ‘no’, it wasn’t, and isn’t God’s plan for the Church. I believe that God wants us to love the Church. Not love what we see in the news sometimes or maybe have experienced in the past, but love the Church as He intended it to be. That’s what this series is going to be about — us learning to be the community God intended us to be.