GlocalNet

I need the whole church . . .  not just a branch of it.  That’s why people skip and hop around - either they want an emphasis, a style, or a dimension of church, but we will never be complete like that.

I need the basic church, the small group, the house church, the cell group where the body does life together and shares, and challenges, and learns and ministers together so I’m not lost.

I need the gathered tribal/city church - where I can go and worship and experience God.  I need to meet with others who share the vision, the call, the mission, all of it to glorify God together strategically so I’m not just some little small group doing my own thing but tied to a bigger thing. 

I need the global church to keep the big picture before me.  I need it to teach me things that are beyond my own tribe, nation, race, and ethnicity. 

I need the seeker church - to always keep in front of me people that need Jesus more than anything and we can fellowship and disciple and all the rest - but a day of reckoning is coming.

I need the Spirit-filled church - to walk in holiness, to move in power, to set free those in bondage.

I need the teaching church - to keep me true to the word of God to build upon no other foundation but his, and to know that it’s the Word that determines truth - and not my emotions or even experience for that matter.

I need the encouraging church - to challenge, motivate, speak life into, give hope, give correction, give all I need to follow Christ as the body.

I need the sending church - that realizes it’s not about us all gathered here and there - but it’s about his people all over the place. 

In a few moments I’ll go downstairs and get in a car with a group of Vietnamese officials from several different branches of the government.  We’ll visit the church.  I come as part of the global church, and we’ll visit some house churches and others in city churches - THEY ALL MATTER!!!