Let us Grow our Church
Blessings in Our Lord Jesus Christ, As our year begins, I want to reflect on what it means to be a disciple in a missional church. Disciple means to be a student. Not a student who simply gathers biblical facts and moralizes about them. Rather a student, much like the disciples, who are invited by Jesus to enter into ministry and learn from those experiences, to pray for the people we encounter, and to invite them to discover God in our church family. To be missional, means that we all have a vital role to play in the growing of Christ's church through engaged discipleship. We are called to share the good news with our unique gifts and skills. We must not hide these talents. Jesus also demands of us to invite strangers into our church (Luke 15:2). Of course, this involves a great risk of being open to questions of why we believe in God and why do we go to church. But as we have heard this Sunday, we only can rejoice as a church if each of us leaves the ninety-nine