Innovating on God …

Sometimes it’s a little dismaying watching church leaders with their non-stop wrestling with thinking up new models for the church.

Especially when inches from them sits a Bible, containing God’s idea for what the church is supposed to be.

Instead of trying to innovate on God’s thinking, perhaps the church would be far better off by applying it. Perhaps the most traditional of ideas — those God had men, led by the Spirit, to write down for our benefit — are exactly what will create a thriving church body.

Perhaps it’s as simple as loving God with all our heart, strength, mind, and soul, loving our neighbors like we love ourselves, and daily picking our our own crosses and walking in Jesus’ steps.

Maybe if we love God, serve the Lord, and spend ourselves entirely on Him, we’ll be the church we can and should be.

Could it be we think, strategize, and talk about church models far too much, and live out being God’s children in simplicity far too little?

What would happen if we simply turned that around?

Scotty