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The believers relationship with Church is often fraught with great hazards and difficulties. Despite the friendship, use, joy and blessing that comes from connecting to a community; there is also the unfortunate experience of disappointment, manipulation and in some cases even abuse. There are Christians who love the church but will not attend, and those who have been hurt by the church who have found their way back. For all its greatness, and at times misery, the local church remains God’s idea, his ordain means of transforming lives, and his chosen vehicle through which He touches and revives a dying world.

This week the Curious team take an honest look at the place of church in the individual Christian’s life; it’s meaning, it’s struggle, it’s beauty and it’s significance. They explore how the church matters more than we think. That 2000 years of church history has shown that no individual Christian has ever thrived and developed in complete isolation. Yet they also recognise the failure and the abuse and the struggle that many have suffered at the hands of the church. In spite of remaining God‘s plan A, his divine intention; the church has nevertheless been placed into the hands of failing humans.

Join the team in this weeks episode as they explore the thinking of Christian writers and reformers, reflecting on the beauty as much as the ugliness of Church.

Further Reading
Here’s a bit of homework for you….we’ve included a couple of articles that compliment this episode….

Why the Church is Vitally Important for Every Christian - Crossway.org

Why God Made You for Membership - DesiringGod.org

What we’re reading?
As a feature to our notes, we are adding the book or books that we’ve browsed related to this episode…enjoy!

Barnabas Piper & Ray Ortlund — Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another

Robert H. Thune — The Gospel-Centered Community

Megan Hill — A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church

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