Noel Heikkinen posted this quote on his blog today from Relevant Magazine’s website. You can read the full article here, but this has stirred thoughts about stuff I’ve been thinking about over the past several years and something Don Overton has been preaching about recently.  We must look at Church and church as a place where we are a community, where we share our lives and live life together. Where we can be honest and open about who we are, what our struggles are, a place to celebrate, to cry, to laugh, to love.

Church isn’t meant to be people who mask our brokenness with good acts. It’s meant to be the place where we can freely say, “I want to sleep with that guy,” “I have slept with that girl”, “I drank too much last night” or “I lied to my colleague about that project!” It’s meant to be a place where we don’t wear these things as a badge of honour but with a spirit of confession. Church isn’t meant to be about perfect people but about confessed people. We should be able to say these things, our secrets, our sins, our mistakes, and receive love and acceptance from Jesus (and church people) when we do.

Don said something that has been something that I’m truly convinced to be true.

Jesus called us to be fishers of men, where did we get the idea that we need to clean them before we catch them.

Where did we get this idea we had to be cleaned up, or clean others up to bring them before Christ.  Why do we do this?  It’s a lie from the pit of hell.  I love the two final thoughts made by Noel:

- We shouldn’t flaunt our sin, but confess it.
- We should love on those who are struggling through these issues, just like Jesus does.

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