Light and Glory and the Church at the Crossroads - Make The Church Great Again

There’s a place where there’s no trouble. A place where pain doesn’t exist. A place that, without knowing it, every song longing for a better day, is singing about. A place where nobody dies, and people are never sad. It’s called the Kingdom of God. Not only is it coming, but it’s here. It’s so close now that sometimes we get a glimpse of the light and the glory of this Kingdom as though it’s pressing against some unseen barrier barely able to hold it back. God has given the church a mission, but people are sometimes confused about what the mission is. The simplest way to define the mission of the church is that the church points the way and tells the world that they have been invited to this kingdom. Their entrance, made possible by Jesus’ great love, demonstrated on the cross. The church is to be a place where the light and glory of the kingdom of God is visible as God pulls back the fabric between heaven and earth, letting us taste what is to come.