What will you do?
We must leave our safety zone and the warm feelings of those who agree with us and meet head-on the hostility of a world without faith. Only under these conditions can we effectively introduce others to Jesus Christ the risen Lord.
This is what the first believers did and we should do likewise.
Acts 8:1-4 On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
About the 4th century and later, Christians came under the false teaching that only the clergy preached the word and the laity only went to church. Nowhere in the New Testament is this taught.
Jesus tells us to go.
So if you feel like you’re stagnating in the church building you probably are... then go out and be the Church, because that is our reason for remaining on earth.
