Let the Church Be the Church

This book is inspired from a series of sermons delivered by Bishop George D. McKinney, PhD., at St. Stephen’s Church of God in Christ, San Diego, California. 
This writing was motivated by my deep love and concern for the sleeping giant of the world – God’s church at large. 
If one soul can be awakened to the urgency of the Christian’s commission to herald the Good News in a world where hopelessness is more commonplace than hope, my heart will be made glad and the Kingdom of God will be advanced. 
The walls we have erected in the Body of Christ to separate us one from the other must come down. Together, we must go and tell of Jesus and the hope He gives. 
Allow this book to challenge your thinking. Contemplate your role in God’s Church and evaluate your quality of involvement and commitment to Jesus Christ. 
This book is written not to the unbeliever, but to the believer. It is not to the one who evaluates with a critical eye yet exerts little effort to assist in bearing the burden. Critics hurl their criticisms at the Christian church daily, resulting in little or no positive results. 
The Church that is going to prevail is the Church that will not forget to praise God, for Jesus is worthy o praise. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise Him in the morning, praise Him in the evening, and praise Him when the sun goes down. Praise Him, because He is God. Praise Him for His mighty acts of salvation. Praise Him, because He is the divine healer. Praise Him, because He leads us beside the still waters. 
When the people of God praise the Lord, when we praise Him with the whole heart, when we praise Him with our lips and with our lives, and when we just keep on praising the Lord, somebody who does not have this grace, and who does not know this salvation will hear and be drawn to Him. And the Church will go on. 
In today’s economic climate in America, businesses are folding at the rate of one thousand per week. Stores are being boarded up every day. 
But, there is one institution that shall never die, and that is the Church. How we need to thank God that we are in this institution that in all of time and in eternity shall never die. Let the Church roll on. 
Get in the Church, be in the Church, stay in the Church; and as a part of the Church, and let the Church be the Church! The Church will prevail.