No Church is a Bowflex!
Last week my wife and I moved all of our stuff out of our beautiful home into a 10′ X 20′ storage facility until we make the final move to NKY this summer. We moved ourselves into the home of our good friends George and Mary Yokley who have gone out of their way to accommodate us for a few months until our relocation. There’s a lot of cool things that have come out of us living with the Yokely’s, but to me the coolest thing is that they own a Bowflex. If you don’t know what a Bowflex is then you need to get out from underneath your rock more often, but in short it is a revolutionary workout machine that can transform your body in just 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week! I know, it’s exciting stuff.
As we awaited our move into their home I found myself giddy with excitement to use the Bowflex to rejuvenate my once sculpted and athletic body to its former glory. I would constantly say to Jenna, “When I can use the Bowflex, things will be different and I will make it happen. I’ll finally stick with a regular exercise routine.” It didn’t matter than I have failed to stick to a workout routine since we have been married. The Bowflex was going to make things different.
Then, the other day we were discussing Horizon stuff and I uttered these words. “I can’t wait until we launch Horizon. Things will be different than they ever have been, and God will make it happen!” While I believe every word of what I said, and I believe that God is currently and will in the future do GREAT things through our work at Horizon I realized that we have to walk a fine line with this thinking.
We can’t present this church to people as a Bowflex. We can’t tell them that this church will solve all of their problems or revolutionize their commitment to God and the Bible. I REALLY think that this church will be able to help people do this in ways they couldn’t before, but no church is a Bowflex. No matter what church you attend, or what denomination you ascribe to God is still God, and our inability to commit to Him will stare us in the face no matter where we go.
Even though I believe Horizon will be a revolutionary kind of church that is more accepting, active, and committed to God than your average church, attending our services just because we are fresh and new will not be a magic potion to cure commitment issues with God. We have to be the ones to make it happen. We can’t expect a church to do it for us. No church is a Bowflex!
FYI – I have been on the Bowflex EVERY DAY since our move to the Yokley’s. Boo Yah!
