Are you an ‘innie’ or an ‘outtie’? Does your faith reside mostly inside of you, like a well-kept secret? Or is your faith out there to be shared with all you encounter? Each moment of our lives can either be a God moment or just a moment. God is everywhere all of the time – try and find Him there!
Is your community of believers more of an innie or an outtie? Is the community consumed with what’s going on inside the walls?Or does your church look outside to the world some of the time? A healthy church does both.
Just as the church must focus both within and without, we too as a person of faith must look both within and without. We each need time reading the Bible, praying, meditating, and fasting to grow in our faith. As a community of believers we need fellowship and loving and caring relationships between the members of the body.
Personally and as a community of believers we need to also reach outside of our own personal space or the four walls of the church so that others can come to know this mighty and awesome God we love and that loves us. Not everyone will enter a church to find faith. Some find it in the experiences they have with us or with our church. We must be both within and without. It is not either/or. It must be both!
Scripture reference: Psalm 133
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