Getting Plugged In – In 2010!

Stop “Doing” Church(It might destroy you!)

“Doing” ChurchThe Checklist Church

Show Up Sing some Pray Communion Give some Listen Smile

“Doing” ChurchThe Checklist Church 1/7th

Lie

“One day a week is dedicated to God.”

“Doing” ChurchThere is something wrong with our Christianity when we have to beg most of our crowd to come to church to hear about it.

—Vance Havner

Morgan, R. J. (2000). Nelson's complete book of stories, illustrations, and quotes (electronic ed.) (125). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

The Early Church and “Doing” Church

“And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they

did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”

(Acts 5.42; ESV)

Doing Church vs. Being Church

Doing:

the act of performing or executing

plural a : things that are done or that occur

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doing

Doing Church vs. Being Church

Being:

the quality or state of having existence; conscious existence

the qualities that constitute an existent thing: essence

a living thing

http://m-w.com/dictionary/being

Doing Church vs. Being Church

Be:

to equal in meaning : have the same connotation as :

to have identity with

to belong to the class of

http://m-w.com/dictionary/be

Why Should I Stop “Doing” Church?

Doing is performing, specifically the act.

Being is identification based on qualifications.

Performing is not believing!

Why Should I Stop “Doing” Church?

“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain

they do worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of

men.”

(Matthew 15.8-9; ESV)

Why Should I Stop “Doing” Church?

“The world at its worst needs

the church at its best.”

—Anonymous

Morgan, R. J. (2000). Nelson's complete book of stories, illustrations, and quotes (electronic ed.) (119). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Doing Church vs. Being Church

Are you the church or do you come to church?

Do you fellowship with brothers and sisters?

Being the Church Involves Others

Titus 2.11-15

“training”

“to live”

Declare these things; exhort rebuke with all authority.

Doing Church vs. Being Church

Are you the church or do you come to church?

If you have retire from church, then you retired Christ!

Stop “Doing” Church(It might destroy you!)

Getting Plugged In – In 2010!