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Have you ever used a word so much that you stopped

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thinking about what it actually means? Like the

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word fine. You know you're one inconvenience

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away from eating cereal out of a used vegetable

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can. You're not fine. Or the word busy. When

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your calendar looks like it was assembled by

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raccoons on espresso. When words get that familiar,

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we assume we know what they mean. That's exactly

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what happened to me with the word church. I grew

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up in church, but somewhere along the way, I

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realized I'd spent most of my life around church

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without slowing down to ask what scripture actually

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says it's supposed to be. Then the questions

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got loose. Is this biblical, or is it just familiar?

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Is this conviction, or is it just preference,

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wearing a suit and carrying a Bible? Welcome

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to Grace in the Grind, brought to you by Arrow

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& Roots Coffee Company, where faith meets the

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everyday. Grab your coffee and let's take a sip

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of this cup together. This season, we're bringing

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a big question into the church. What have we

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built without realizing it? Most of us inherited

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our understanding of church. That's not automatically

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bad, but sometimes we confuse tradition with

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scripture. We confuse a full calendar with actual

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discipleship and the way I like church with the

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way church is supposed to be. The deeper you

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go into scripture, the more you realize church

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is not a religious service we attend. She is

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the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, and

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the household of God. That shifts our questions

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from consumer thinking to biblical community.

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Instead of, did I get something out of this?

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We're asking, am I helping build up the body?

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Instead of, is the church growing? Are the people

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maturing? season didn't start with me sitting

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in a dark room whispering, let's fix the church,

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like some caffeinated reformer with a podcast

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mic and unresolved committee trauma. It started

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as a simple study for our local church class,

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which eventually grew into a book called Christ

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and His Church. Look, I'm an unknown author.

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This isn't a sales pitch. It's about accessibility

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for people who can listen while driving to work,

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folding laundry, or sitting in the driveway for

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three extra minutes trying to gather themselves

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before walking inside and trying to act like

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a functional adult. I get it. So our assumptions

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shape how we live, though. If we think the church

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is a service provider, we approach it like a

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consumer. If we think it's supposed to be perfect,

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we will be crushed when sinners act like sinners.

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The church is holy in Christ. But she's still

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full of broken people who occasionally act like

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they need adult supervision. And I say that as

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one of them. We're simply asking better questions.

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What does Christ say about his church? Pot 3

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is going to ask some honest, uncomfortable questions.

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That's okay. They need to be asked. Because if

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Christ loves the church enough to give himself

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for her, we should love her enough to understand

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her rightly. Pot three, Christ and his church,

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what we have assumed. It's going to be coming

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out later this month. Thanks for listening to

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Grace in the Grind, where we keep our coffee

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strong and our faith stronger. We'll see you

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in pot three.