"In the same way the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christ. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the bible itself, are simply a waste of time." -C.S. Lewis
This summer I spent some time in Denver with a church called Open Doors Fellowship. The mission of the church was to unite the community around them through the loving power of Jesus Christ. Sounds Corny, and thats probably not even their mission statement- but its not so corny when its not on a T-Shirt. This was truly the heart of this church- placed in the middle of the denver ghetto, spending all of their time on the streets pulling the broken and disenfranchised off of the streets and feeding them- and giving them truth. If you were to walk into a service- you would witness the most diverse church family demographics. Everything from recovering drug abusers to upper middle class families, with everything in-between. The church gave me a new perspective of God's Mission. The time this church spent in the sanctuary was blown away by the hours of outreach and service spent in the streets. This is the Church.
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