Looking Back on Connectivity: You and Your Church: What Does It Take?

Dear Leaders, This week please encourage reflection on each of the quotes and
give attention to interaction on the Working it Out questions.
This is a question most every endeavor has to ask once it has determined its
objective. What does it take? When it comes to the church, it takes the three
members of the Trinity, but it also takes each member of the church pursuing the
principles of the NT. Oh my, how much potential and power when we do it-and
stay at it!
Thinking It Through (agree/disagree /consider/contemplate)
No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.
C. S. Lewis
We find it easier to go to church than to be the church.
Unknown
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or
magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine
nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law
Working It Out
1. What were some of the most significant words to you in Ephesians 4:1-
16 and why? Just write out the words and then comment.

2. Which of the three aspects of what it takes in the church (see message
outline) do think most churches struggle with the most and why?

3. Describe a couple of specifics regarding what you can do to help your
church walk in a manner worthy of its calling.