For a company there is no book of pluming, or book of logistics they are pioneers in their own world. However the church has a clear cut purpose. How can we expect God to live in a house that no longer exists for him but our own idea of what ministry should look like. I am all for purpose, Gods purpose!

As a church we can not be called to any thing different. How we apply this purpose may change but the purpose it’s self is set in the very Bible scriptures from the breath of God.

Jesus was a Rabbi. A disciple of a Rabbi was to one day become the Rabbi. We are to become the Rabbi in essence. We might negotiate baptism, teaching etc. However there is and can not be any dispute to us making disciples. To us becoming the Rabbi or calling others to the same purpose.

The purpose will:

Give us movement. When movement starts taking place the wheels of the church start moving, stagnant parts turn and people brace themselves. I remember when we got lost we would drive around for what seemed like for ever, mom would tell dad to stop for directions, dad would tell mom to look at the map and I would watch for any sign of sanity with all of this, but after five wrong turns and one stop we arrived at our destination. If we stayed in one place because that was familiar to us then we would have never arrived at our destination, so doing fulfilling the purpose of the trip camping and fishing. Imagine the Israelites staying in Egypt because that’s what they new? It does not make any sense.

Allow us to take risks. One thing that I have learnt is that there is plain blind stupidity and then there is calculated risks of stupidity, either way people always have something to say or comment or object to because it just does not make sense? Why walk into a flaming hot desert or into a sea where things could go horribly wrong, what about invading a land that was full of giants. I believe that when we have purpose and that purpose lines up with Gods purpose and word that we take a calculated stupid risk. Throwing Jonah into the sea might not have been a plan that made no sense yet God worked in it. (Romans 8 vs. 28)

Bad direction stimulates discussion and working out of salvation a challenging of ideas and desires, a revealing of true character and emotion, the same stuff we call our congregation to. Facing conflict head on is a sign of a church not willing to allow its leaders insecurities or the congregations to stop its Godly purpose but rather embracing and engaging in one another’s lives to over come the situations.

A vision must be felt/ hurt. A treasure hunter can not go to work and do the mundane, every day routine work. There needs to be a constant seeking, a struggle, exploring of the evidence and places in hopes of discovery and treasure. For him to stop would mean nothing. He has to seek out the treasure constantly pursuing new ways of archiving the same treasure. Over the period of 2000 years the purpose for us and the church has never changed. Jesus never forgets the purpose but carries it with him the hope there of and the reality of the pain as well as the victory there in.

I remember watching formula 1 for a season everybody was close BMW, Ferrari and McLaren , every race was a battle as I sat on my seat I could feel the excitement and pressure. The next season Ferrari won every race quite comfortably they simply had all the odds and cons I did not finish watching the season because it became simple, mundane and boring, my dad watched it out of habit. Some times we do things in the church out of habit. The time for mundane church must come to an end for church to become relevant and hopefully change the lives of many into true disciples.