CORE: Reaching
Jul 24, 2016 • Dr Charles Kyker • CORE Values - Week 2
A healthy church focuses more on reaching than keeping. Why is that? Is the church not about being a family of faith and helping people feel like they belong? The local church is about welcoming people who desire to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, but then the goal is to become a community of believers united in a mission that compels us to do an “about-face” once we belong. It’s about looking for lost sheep outside the fold. Jesus said: “For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost” (Luke 19:10). Once we know forgiveness of sin and experience true freedom in Christ, we are compelled to tell others the Good News.