Church and Serving the Community Project

In the modern world, there has been a rise in some churches. All these are due to the differences with which the leadership of each different church views the issue of religion or rather their interpretation of the Bible. Most Christians are seen to be using the bible as their tool for guiding their daily life endeavors. However, despite them refereeing to one Bible for guidance and living, not all of them have the same interpretation of the same. People have different aspects with which they view the Bible, and these perspectives tend to change from an individual to the other. For instance, in 1st John chapter 2 verse 6, it is written that whoever claims to be living in God must live just as Christ lived. This is one an example of a phrase from the bible that has been interpreted differently by most people and is bound for discussion in this paper. This article aims at looking at different ways through which such an outreach could be approached with regards to various churches websites. In so doing, the paper will answer individual questions for instance, what extent should local churches focus while doing their services to the community and whether the size of a churchs congregation is a factor determining their service delivery to other among other queries.

To begin with, from the different websites on the subject for study in this paper, we can see that different churches come up with various programs which they use in their service delivery programs. Some churches have different programs for the adults and children, and this they deem is one way through which they could achieve their goal of salvation to others. In most of these churches websites, we see the main idea being propagated for is the idea of changing peoples lives just as seen in 1 John 2:6 Christians are told that if they truly live in God, then they ought to do that just as Christians do. Most churches provide for more than one service, some of which are scheduled in the middle of the week. They provide for more than one service in a week so as to ensure they can capture a broader audience and have more of their brethren get the message of salvation.

Notably, in accordance to the bible, if the churches have to live up to the word that is written in the bible then they have to put all their focus in delivering services to the community. They should have more than one service in the course of the week where they meet and share the word of God. As we see in the Bible, Jesus Christ spent the better bit of his time praying and doing things that are in line with glorifying God and therefore Christians ought to emulate this by ensuring they take their time doing the same (Spencer et al., 2014). Some churches in the community are seen to be having better outreach than others. This comes from their ability to manipulate peoples perspectives of the church. For instance, some churches provide better facilities than others, and this makes their sessions lively hence able to have larger outreach than others (Spencer et al., 2014). The other reason that is seen to be making more churches have better outreach than others is the idea of their location. Some churches are located strategically such that they are easily accessed by more people as compared to other, and this makes them have more followers or rather subscribers. This implies that application of better location facilities and better location of a church is one way through which they could live to the outreach expectations of the Bible (Parks, 2016).

Ideally, the size of the congregation in any given church is a determining factor in the way they conduct their services. For instance, just as seen in the websites, some churches have separate programs for the youth and separate ones for the adults (Peterson, 2016). This is probably so because of the large congregation it has. The disintegration of the services makes the delivery of message effective. This is also another way through which a church could increase or rather live its outreach in accordance to the bible. It could have different groups being subjected to different programs, and this will make the services more efficient.

In addition to that, the resource endowment by a given church is also a determining factor in the size of the congregation that it pulls. For instance, if a church has a better sound system it may use this to their advantage and preach to a larger congregation than what a church with no better sound system could provide. This could as well stand out to be an example of how a church could live up to the outreach expectations of the Bible. They could have or rather employ the use of better sound facilities. In addition to facilities, a church could also use its resources and come up with a larger church. This would be significant in the essence that it would be able to accommodate more people during the services. Therefore, resource impact on the ability of a congregation to serve its community in the sense that with better resource endowment, a church could serve a larger audience (Peach, 2015). Summarily, these stands out to be the ways through which churches could live up to the expectations of God as per the word in the bible.

References

Peach, N. D., & Mavrakis, E. (2015). Committed to Serving our Community: George Fox University--Economic Impact Study.

Spencer, E., Hanson, M., & Collis, B. (2014). Serving the community: the sustainability of lunch clubs in North East Wales and West Cheshire. Voluntary Sector Review, 5(3), 381-389.

Peterson, D. J. (2016). Engaging Youth, Serving Community (EYSC12).

Parks, J. (2016). Churches Working Together: Four Keys in Serving One Community (Doctoral dissertation, Liberty University).