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In my reading this week I came across these powerful words from Jerry Cook,  “The Church on Sunday (or Saturday) is great, but where is the Church on Monday?  Most Christians have been trained quite well to be the Church on Sunday.  But what does it look like for believers to be the Church on Monday?”   Jerry Cook urges his readers to envision a body of believers who would go “out of the sanctuary and into the streets.”   

After my first glance at this challenge it was quite easy to identify how the mass of Christianity could and should take note of this warning and challenge.  It is so easy to list how others need to become the Monday morning church, and how others need to leave their sanctuary for the streets.   But the more I thought about these comments the more God began to turn the question and direct it to me personally. It was as if God was reminding me that it first must be an individual transformation before it can become a corporate movement.  I have to be willing to ask myself these tough questions.  We all have to be willing to ask our selves these tough questions.  But asking the question is not enough.  We have to be willing to allow God to transform us all the way from our heads, to our hearts and finally our hands.  

 And that leads me to the heart of this post.  I would like to ask a few questions to spark not just a discussion but possibly a transformation in my life as well as yours.Please feel free to engage and discuss these questions.  But I challenge you to go beyond a simple response and risk your personal experiment with taking your faith to the streets.   

1.       Describe how you see the need for the Church to not only be the Church on the weekend but the desperate need for the Church to be the Church every day of the week, going out of the sanctuary and into the streets? 

2.       What do you think it would look like for us to be the Monday morning Church?  What would it look like for the Church to go out of the sanctuary and into the streets? 

3.       How has God challenged you to go out of the sanctuary and into the streets? 

4.       How have you moved from bringing people to Jesus to taking Jesus to them? 

Thanks for taking the time to read and think with me.  I look forward to your thoughts and your stories of what God is teaching you.   

Pastor Brady Wisehart

Thanks for all of your comments on the site. Just wanted to address some of the questions many have had recently. It is our goal to have the interactive elements up to date by the following Tuesday afternoon (podcast audio & on-demand video). I know it’s a little frustrating when you miss a weekend service and you can’t find the current service online. All of these elements are being produced in-house so that’s why it takes us a little longer to make these elements available. Thanks for your patience and for your support!

Well it’s about time we gave this old site a face lift. Tonight we will relaunch the gccn.org site. We’re updating the entire site and adding function as well as visual appeal. So let us know what you think. What do you like about the new site? Also since it’s a fresh launch if you see a broken link or a spelling error post a comment here so we can get it fixed right away. Thanks for your help and enjoy the site!

Welcome to the Grove City Church of the Nazarene Weblog! Now you can interact with us in a whole new way. Keep your browser pointed here after each weekend service for posts that will help you process the the topics and make it applicable for your life. Please ask questions … that’s why we’ve created this blog. We don’t have all the answers but we promise to work hard to find them. Enjoy!