Somehow, we’ve taught people that church is the space where they come and cloister, a place of escape from the world. But that’s not the New Testament description. Jesus followers aren’t escaping the world; we’re engaging it and engagement isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes we’ll experience resistance from the outside, and many times resistance will come from within. The Rev Dr. Martin Luther King said it this way: if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Are you willing to lose your life-as-you-know-it for the sake of God’s mission?
