My new Children's director asked me a question that brought this question to my mind. How much of our time should be used making healthy the people inside the church and how much should we use reaching out to the community.
I'm pretty sure that a paradigm of sitting around reading the Bible to one another until the world realizes they need Jesus won't ever work.
But I'm also questioning the paradigm that we should have most of our energy outward bringing new people into the church. Can we actually make disciples when the house that we bring people into is out of order?
So, what is the City on the Hill's most important task and how do we ballance the tasks at hand?
