Little White Box

If you are a night owl, insomniac, taco bell fan or can recall your college days you are familiar with the 4th meal. It’s the middle of the night and there is just a hint of hunger pains, in order to cut them off, food is required. It usually plays out this way: You open the refrigerator door and look inside, not sure what you’re looking for until it strikes you and then there is that deep sense of satisfaction allowing you to continue on with your night of work, video games, or last second cramming.

Churches are like refrigerators to some people, the curious come and open the door staring blankly inside. Not sure what they are looking for exactly but something, something they can’t put words on but they know they need.

My generation likes the search, they like the journey; but they aren’t necessarily looking to find. Often they want to connect with God but they don’t use spiritual tools to make this connection. The community of church can provide the encouragement for them to make that honest and authentic connection with Jesus Christ.

My generation, call us the boomerangs or the lost generation or Mosaics, is searching, at our core we understand that there is a void. We are receptive, and with the right tone and delivery we will listen to what the church has to say.

But many are just looking in refrigerators. They don’t know what they want. They just know they are hungry. They may not know they are hungry for the Word, but they are searching. It is the churches responsibility to show them exactly what they need, namely the Bread of Life and Living Water. Real churches create an essential community where the essential truth of Jesus Christ is experienced.

This community is one where hard to love people find unending love; where people learn how to engage a world searching for truth. It’s one where sins are washed away, a place where the community is inclusive and the exclusive Gospel is proclaimed. A place where people think outwardly instead of inwardly. It’s more than a white box; it’s a different kind of community. It’s the community where Jesus lives