Rick Warren said, “God has not promised to bless your agenda; He invites you to join Him in His agenda. God's agenda is the church. It's not anything else, it's the church.”

I don't know how people can get it so wrong. God's agenda is the church, the bride of Christ, the body which He both acts and speaks! Its the church.

Jesus is building a church that thinks like Him, feels like Him and acts like Him in reaching out to the lost. Jesus is building a church that speaks like Him, sounds like him and loves the lost like Him.

Jesus is extending His energies to build this kind of church – He has promised to build this kind of church in an atmosphere of war and the Hell’s gates will not prevail. Jesus is building a 21^st century Church with a heart for the lost.

Ephesians 1:23 says it all; “The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.”

His church was always meant to be a contemporary outwardly focused church – it was always meant to be externally focused on the needs of the world. As Christians we need to embark on the mission of Christ, serve the purposes of God and join Him in His journey through this world and in the process we need to learn how to resource ourselves and live in maturity.