The gospel is a soul-thing, not an eye-thing.

Published: July 8, 2018, 10 a.m.

Every road has markers. Those markers serve to ensure that you’re on the right course. Five years down the road into our journey as a church, it’s a good opportunity to check the markers Jesus ha s set down for us in order to make sure we’re still on track. Today we’re asking the question: How do we measure? Like any organization, a church wants to know whether or not its efforts have been successful. However, the church needs to be careful how it determines that. Jesus’ words - and his own example - prove that the church’s work will not always be visibly or outwardly successful. Rather than getting discouraged or distracted, Jesus helps us stay faithful to the task at hand: to preach the good news.