Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

by Bob Goff

Sometimes we make church a lot more complicated than Jesus meant for it to be. When I was young, there was a rhyme that went, “Here is the church, and here is the steeple. Open the doors, and see all the people.” I would weave my fingers together with the pointer fingers touching to make the steeple. With my palms open, I would wiggle all the “people” in the church. I bet you’ve done the same a couple of times. It was just an amusing rhyme then, but it means a lot more to me now. What I saw when I was young was a church wide open in my palms. All the wiggling fingers pointed out toward the world. What is a huge turnoff to the world is when it sees under the steeple a lot of the fingers pointing at each other. Every time we go to church and point fingers at each other, we betray Jesus with another kiss. At “our” church, we go there to meet Him, not to critique each other.

So much truth revealed. 🙌🙌🙌