Something different

I have this crazy idea for something different in church. That instead of having service where everyone puts on the pretty and happy face we go to the neighborhood and spend time building relationships with people where they are comfortable and not putting up the front. What if the church made disciples in the neighborhoods and on the blocks instead of dragging people to church to meet Jesus
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That State Of. The Church

Today sitting in the church I have been hit with something from the Lord. The church needs to grow up and stop being babies! We have become content living on milk and being like babies. We need to step up and out and be stretched so that we can grow. How can babies feed other babies. We can't survive like this!
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Why?

Why is it that I feel like such an odd ball misfit n the church? Why can't i just be like evryone else in the church and fit in. Why does my puzzle piece have to be oddly shaped and not part of the puzzle at my church. Why is it that my heart feel the pain and hurt around me? Why am I such an odd ball that sometimes I can't even pray for people because it hurts so much to touch them? Am I crazy?

Ok so latley I have had like five million things going on in my mind because I feel so out of place in the church. I feel like i do not fit in with what people expect from me. They expect tht because I am a "pastor" that I will pray loud and preach and do things a certain way but unfortunatly that is not me. I don't get up in peoples face and pray for them, i don't push them, i pray for a distance or i give them a hug and pray quietly for them. I think I have been givin a heart for the misfits of the church. I know I am not the only one that doesn't fit in right. I know that God has a special calling or those of us who are not the norm, that cannot sit still in church because of ADD or whatever, that are sick of hearing the same message over and over again. We want something new. We want something and someone that is with us in the trenches. So that's it.

I have decided that I am jumping in the trenches with the poeple. I am not goign to be one of those church people that stands outside the trench saying "you can do it". I am going to be one of those wierd people that says "you are gonna make it, and I am going to help you" and then jump in the trench to help them get out. Knowing that my strength comes from the Lord. I can jump in, in his strength and fight the battle in His stregnth and get people out of the trench and into the light of God.

Church

What is the church? What is this strange thing that people seem to think exsists in a small or large building that all of its people must come to that building and "worship" and listen to a preacher?b Why can't church be on the street corner or in someones house on the block. Why can't people just stop for one minute and realize that the church is doing things all backwords and mixed up. Jesus said to go into the world and make disciples, not once does he say go out into the world and bring people in and get them saed and clean them up. Church happens out in the world by building relationships with people.

Frustration

Latley I have been feeling out of place in my church. I look around and I feel like I dont belong. What has happened to me that would make me all out of sorts. I am so frustrated right now. I feel like I am going crazy in the church. There has to be more to church than this.