The Church in the World?

I don't want to start this post out with, I feel, I think, I' am . No today is a day that the lord has made[ I will ] rejoice and be glad in it. Which causes me to remember the great things God has done for us. With that in mind I looked back at the opportunity God gave the Grace Baptist Church family over the sorghum festival week-end. The privilege to go on main street,to sing songs of Zion,preach the Gospel, witness to the lost, and encourage the saved. No doubt the Church was able to reach more lost folk last Sunday than in the entire 2010 year. The Church has been criticized for going into the world,yet that is what Jesus told his Church to do in Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye[the Church ] into all the world. The Church is to go into the world but not the world go into the Church. We are not to be conformed to the world but be transformed by the message of Jesus Christ. What a blessing to see lives transformed by the message , not turning over a new leaf,or just change my ways. No the message of Jesus is New Life in Christ,the old is dead the new is living. Wow Living a new Life a opportunity to start over again with the wisdom of God to lead us, the power of Christ to sustain us ,and the presence of the Holy Spirit to help us. With that we can truly say[ I can do all things through Christ who gives us strength] Philippians 4:13. The Church is a beautiful thing, and a blessing to the World when it operates in the way Jesus intended.