The message I heard Francis Chan speak at the Catalyst Conference in 2007 had a huge impact on me.  One statement he made has stuck with me – “If Jesus had a church in my town, my church would be bigger”.

He was not bragging, but his rationale was that he realized (as most churches should) that we do not call people to the same type of commitment of discipleship and sacrifice that Jesus called people to.

He talked about how the more he read the Bible and considered what it was saying, the more he realized that there is a huge chasm between what true Biblical Christianity is (as in the Church of Acts) and what most of us in America experience with church. 

How can we read the words of of the gospel and see the way Jesus and the disciples lived, and then think that those are just a bunch of stories about how the radical Christians of 2000 years ago lived?  No, in fact the way they lived was a model for how we should live, what we should do and be concerned/consumed with.

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