Are we making the “means” an “end”? Think about that for a moment. With all the talk about church growth, church health one could almost begin to believe that our end is the church. Yet is not the end the “making of disciples”? I know I state the obvious in terms of theory. I know it’s not really a new idea, at least when it comes to discussion.
Yet I wonder what the discussion looks like if we could only use our present church activities. What do our activities reveal about our real purpose? Have the “ends” become the “means” and the “means” become the “ends”.
I also wonder what activities we presently are engaged in that presently do not contribute to the ends of making disciples? What do we presently do that contributes to the “making of disciples”? What do we presently do that contributes to building a church? I actually believe some of our same activities/programs with a declared purpose of “making and developing” disciples would change. What do you think?
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