Love The Church

We love our church. And having moved a couple times in the past few years, we recognize this as a tremendous gift.

So, this Easter, I wanted to take some time out of my production schedule to make a promotional video for Calvary Community. But as I was writing and thinking about what I hoped people would say, I kept thinking of how this contradicted a blog post I had recently read by Josh Harris.

Basically, he argued that we shouldn’t love the church because of the people there, the programs, the building, or the leadership… which didn’t leave me me with many topics remaining for a traditional promo video. Instead, Harris states we should love love the church because of “who shed his blood to obtain the church”; namely Jesus Christ. So, humbled and rightly corrected, I scrapped the idea and decided to make a video that promoted Jesus specifically instead of a local gathering of His people.

May this video, by Grace, help you see  how sweet it is to “love the church because Jesus loves the church.”

Text Copyright Josh Harris, 2010, Excerpt from “We Are Here To Love the Church” Used with permission.
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