Follow Jesus..Find a Church

In his book, The Jesus Way, Professor of Spiritual Theology, Eugene Peterson writes:

"It is interesting to note that Jesus, who in abridged form is quite popular with the non-church crowd, was not anti-institutional. Jesus said: `Follow me' and then regularly led his followers into the two primary religious institutional structures of his day: the synagogue and the temple. Neither institution was without its inadequacies, faults and failures...All the same, he didn't boycott the place...He regularly joined in the prayers in the small-town synagogues scattered around Galilee. He made regular pilgrimages with thousands of his countrymen at the great appointed times of festival worship in the Jerusalem temple...Those who followed Jesus, followed him into those buildings, those religious institutions. After his ascension, they continued to frequent both temple and synagogue...

A spirituality that has no institutional structure or support very soon becomes self-indulgent and subjective and one-generational."

Let's follow Jesus into church. If you want to check out Jesus or Church, visit us at Rowville Baptist or drop in on a church near you.

Rev. David Devine