Mike Edmisten Follower of Jesus. Husband of Nicki. Father of Ryan & Brock. Communicator of the Word.

Why I Love The Church

Since I already plagiarized Perry Noble yesterday, I guess there's nothing stopping me from doing it again.  This is a snippet of a blog post Perry wrote about this past weekend at NewSpring Church. I'm reposting it because he captures exactly the way I feel about the church…and more specifically, how much I love our church. Enjoy.

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• I LOVE MY CHURCH!
• For some reason if you say “I love ice cream” people think you are normal…but if you say “I love my church” they think you are a part of a cult! (Usually because they don’t love their church…they endure it!)
• God changed my life through the local church…what the church does matters and I have given my life to it.
• When we say we love Jesus but don’t love the church we are basically booing the bride at the wedding…something the Groom will not tolerate!
• Yes, the church is full of jacked up, hypocritical people…and there is room for one more!!!
• There is not a perfect church!
• BUT…the church is HIS (Matthew 16:18), He said He would build it…and…He is!
• The church was SO important to Him that He gave His life for it, established it and now sits at the head of it…if all of that is true then IT MATTERS!
• We’re not called to attend a church…we’re called to belong to one!
• I used an Andy Stanley phrase today when I spoke in regards to the best way to make sure your kids one day drop out of church is force them to attend a church that you secretly wished that you didn’t attend!
• As a Christian I MUST celebrate because I WAS DEAD and now I am ALIVE IN CHRIST!!!  (See Ephesians 2:1-10!)  When people cross over from death to life…it’s time to get ROWDY!