Ever see a neighborhood boy endlessly shooting baskets, yet he never plays on a basketball team? I saw a girl dressed up as a cheerleader with no one to cheer for. We read the manual, teach the manual, but we never drive the car.
Sometimes I feel like life in a church–or actually just about any other organization–can be like that. We spend time teaching or reading or thinking, but we never actually do anything.
If you are in a market place organization, you have customers (I hope) to serve. It’s really all about designing and building a product that others (customers) will find useful and will buy and use.
If you are in a church, our “customers” are people who are not in a church. Their lives (the life of each individual person) would be better if they were taught how to live a life of freedom in the Spirit. But we spend all our time studying every little nuance in the manual (The Bible) and never really ever go out and meet one of our customers.
Yes, we all need to continue to grow–study, pray, think, ask, celebrate. But that’s not the point. It’s not all about us.
When Jesus taught, mostly it was about how you can live in the Kingdom of Heaven now and how his followers should show other people how to also this “Good News.” He taught, and he trained. Then he sent them out to actually work.
His last words on earth were for his followers to “go” and “make disciples”, not to “study” and “argue.”
I’m trying to bring this teaching into my own life. Both in church and in the marketplace. I encourage you to “go” and “do” today.
Faith Venture 
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