One of the things that Stephen said that really hit with me was he talked about that so often the problem with the church is that we go into the community, and we expect people to help us out. We go out to stores and ask for donations, and we go to places and ask them to give us things to help us out, but is that what the church was really called to do, is that what we are supposed to do. I am not saying that every church is leaching from the community, but some of the churches out there are always take, take, take, and they never give.
We shouldn’t be the kind of church that is trying to cut corners, or who is trying to get out the cheap way. Now that doesn’t mean that we should be loose with our money and that we shouldn’t be responsible with what we have, but we shouldn’t hoard it, we need to be using it to bless each other. We need to be the church that is not trying to do things and take advantage of people in order to get the most out of what we can by walking on the community around us. That is not showing the light of Christ. We need to be trying to bless the community. They already have a bad taste of church in their mouths and it is our job to change that, but we need to be showing the light all the time, not just when they are on our turf.
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