What Makes a Church a Family?

The gospel of grace has exploded over the past few years. Ten years ago you probably hadn’t heard of Joseph Prince, Andrew Wommack, or Escape to Reality. But today many people are preaching grace, writing about grace, singing about grace, and walking in grace. There are countless sermons, books, and videos on grace, and gazillions of testimonies – stories about how lives have been radically changed by the healing power of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness. Given this exciting and global revolution, why is it still so hard to find a church preaching pure grace? Why do many churches still preach a mixed-up message of grace-plus-works? It seems the grace revolution has touched every corner of the world, except the main street church. Why is that? Why is the church slow to get grace? The reason some churches are slow to embrace grace is because they are not families. They may say they are a family, but what they say differs from what they do. God sets the solitary in families. (Ps 68:6) Family is where we do life and encounter Jesus. You need love, grace and healing? You’ll find it in God’s family. Churches that function like families get grace; churches that [...]Image may be NSFW.
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