Nellie and I worshiped in a church not from our district, nor from our conference. As the pre-worship announcements were made, and a couple of people walked up to the pulpit to make these, one of them made my wife write in pencil on our bulletin a single word: Inward! Yes. My wife thinks like I do, that our church is turned inward and we cater to the whims and fancy of our members and care not much about the culture outside our walls. As we drove home the discussion was about what good such an event serves. I answered that it builds up the Club.
Christ said, "Go into all the world." Yikes. That isn't inward at all. Pentecost was an outward event spilling the disciples out onto the street, acting drunk, according to some, but joyfully telling of the great works of God. Think about it; the disciples had been inward during those uncertain days, but when God's power was poured out, outward they went.
We have that same power.
Go!
