The Water Glass

Tonight Extended Play ran a little bit different. While I do not necessarily want to say it went bad, in a lot of ways I did not have the results I wanted. Tomorrow night we have Worship on the Grand, and tonight the band needed to practice, which meant we did not have a place to meet for EP. However, for a few weeks we have been talking about possibly going over to the new building and helping with the construction work over there.

So tonight for EP we decided to meet at our current building and then go over to the new space and help Randy in whatever way he needed help. I thought that this would be a great for our group to bond, lend a hand, and over all grow in Christ by focusing less on consuming and more helping others. In some ways, I think we accomplished those goals, but at the same time I feel like we did not.

In some ways I feel like the church in Corinth. I feel like, although we have a few strong, mature Christians, for the most part we are made up of people that have very little idea who Jesus is, let alone what it means to follow him. For example, we have a girl that comes to EP who is married, yet her husband almost never comes. But then there is another guy that comes to EP who is obviously infatuated with this girl, despite the fact that she is married. So he always wants to be around her, help her, talk with her, and whatever else. Except this girl does nothing to try and discourage his behavior, and in some ways it seems like she almost encourages it.

Then we have some others that, although they come to EP, have no desire to pour into the lives of others yet. Which, in some ways I am not expecting them to yet. But in a way, I guess I am expecting them to be able to pour into others, because I am leading a project where we go and help other people.

Over all, maybe it would be a good idea to hold off on outreach and projects where I expect people to give selflessly for now. Perhaps for now it would be a better idea to simply continue to teach the people that come to EP. After a while, I might be able to get them to a point where they understand it is not all about them. In which case, at that point we can start outreach again.