Musings on Spiritual Matters

Goals in churches are important.  If a church selects the wrong goal, everything else will go wrong in a congregation.  One of the goals that seems to be satisfying in congregation, which might be good in some aspects, but misses the divine mark of the church is the idea that congregations are striving to be “a big happy church.”  Well, this is not always correct, some churches just strive to be “a happy church.”  Of course we should want our congregations to be places of peace and joy.  We want our congregations to live in harmony and fellowship.  But this goal of having happiness misses the true goal for the church.  The church has to be centered around more than happiness.  If it is not, you will have a congregation that avoids all conflict, unhealthy behavior will reign because people will not want to deal with the unpleasant elements of the people in the congregation.  Avoiding conflict is never a healthy response.  Also, the desire to be happy misses the mark on purpose.  In fact, our churches should be organized around, and function with a sense of purpose or better said mission.  The mission of God must be at the forefront of the defining characteristics of the church.  Happiness might be the America goal, but it is not God’s goal.  God wants mission to take place.  This means that happiness might not be there for a while, people might be upset, people might leave because they are not happy, but this is alright if mission is taking place.  The mission of God is the centering goal of the church, not just happiness.

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