musical chairs

Luke 5:27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector's booth. "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. 28 So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.

  29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"

  31 Jesus answered them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do. 32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent."


Most of the time, churches play musical chairs.

Iow, when they grow, they usually just get people who already are going to church to come to theirs.

For the last 12+ years, I've been a part of a church that's far more interested in drawing from a much, much, MUCH larger group of people - those who don't go to church - people we label with all kinds of names, most of which are demeaning. Iow, we're talking about people who haven't established a relationship / connection with God through Jesus.

Up until coming to Christ Chapel, Macon, most of the people I knew were "church folks".  Not so since then.

According to the census bureau, Lynn & I live in a county where over half the people have no denominational affiliation. Those are the people Lynn & I are interested in being around, sharing our lives with, & gathering together to point to God. We really, really hope we get to be & do that more & more as time goes by in this beautiful place.