- Visit the elderly
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- Buy someone a cup of coffee (in Jesus’ name) at Starbucks
- Mow a neighbor’s lawn
- Pray all morning
- Take a long walk with God
- Have family devotions over breakfast
- Start a church
- Have a garage sale and give the money to a good cause.
- Read the Bible
- Write a blog about not going to church
- Pray for missionaries
- Run a 5k, tell people about why you aren’t in church.
- Worship God
- Feed the homeless
- Pray for local churches
- Give stuff away
- Invite the neighbors over
- Have a block party
- Tell a stranger the “good news.”
- Write letters of encouragement to pastors in third world countries
- Take bibles to everyone on your street
- Read The Rabbit and the Elephant by Tony and Felicity Dale
- Start a neighborhood backyard Bible club
- Find all of the references to “church” in the New Testament
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By: Escape Velocity Part 2 « A Blog for the Church on August 21, 2010
at 7:05 AM
great list! Sometimes (after a year and a half or so) I still hear that little voice nagging, “It’s Sunday! You should go to church!” (lol… I actually did go to church last Sunday with the people I was visiting when I was away on holidays… and was reminded again, rather sadly, why I don’t often “go to church” these days).
What have I done “instead of church” today? Talked with Father as I walked across town, and then prayed with (and talked and laughed with, and made french toast for) the folks at the street family breakfast there, shared a bit of cash with some street folks; on the way home smiled and greeted everyone I passed; and back home, made comments on some blogs about not going to church, and chatted with a friend on facebook who I’ve been praying for, and made a date to get together with a friend for coffee later this week, and another date to get together for prayer with another friend… and it’s only noon so far…
But I didn’t go to church… But oh! maybe all that IS church! Yes!
By: norma j hill on August 22, 2010
at 1:22 PM
Sounds like you are having a great day! Sounds like church to me Norma.
Thanks for the comment.
By: Ken Eastburn on August 22, 2010
at 2:58 PM
That’s not church. It’s a bunch of good things. It’s evangelism, which is part of church. But it’s not the whole purpose of church.
By: Kathy Shon on September 1, 2010
at 8:15 AM
Thanks for commenting Kathy. It’s good to see you are still reading my blog!
So, I assume you are referring to Norma’s comment. So what, in your opinion is the “whole purpose of church?”
Could the part where she was having breakfast and making french toast and praying with the family be considered “church?”
By: Ken Eastburn on September 1, 2010
at 1:00 PM
Yes, I still look over your blog from time to time when I get a chance. Ali’s too.
What is it about Norma’s Sunday that makes you think that it “sounds like church”?
The whole purpose of church is to fulfill the Great Commission. Matt. 28:19-20.
By: Kathy Shon on September 3, 2010
at 6:48 AM