Experiencing or Expressing?
One of the people I church with has a habit of occasionally asking a perfect, cut-to-the-core question. Last night was one of those times.
“Do you experience Christ in our meetings? If so, when?”
I’m paraphrasing a little, of course. At first I was a little mixed – maybe yes, maybe not enough. Then I realized a counter-question:
“Do we express Christ in our meetings?”
Christians in North America are commonly said to be “consumerist” – we’re all about us, our needs, our wants, ‘what is God doing for me?’ attitudes. I think this is one of the subtleties that reveals some of these habits.
Ask it of your own church – do you express Christ in your meetings? Forget how you feel about it; what are you contributing? What are your brothers and sisters contributing? What’s the fruit?
