Your Church needs ‘you’

What if we are all attending Church for the wrong reasons?

I’m not talking about only going to Church for the worship or the preacher or our friends… we all know they’re not reasons to be in a particular Church.

What about those who go to Church and don’t stop to consider why?

Yes we all need to go and hear the word and be ministered to and I would never argue with that obviously.

But what about the reason ‘you’ are called to your church?

I don’t believe for a second you are there to keep a seat full (or warm)

We are all aware that the Church is the body of Christ right? But what does that mean in practice?

There are obviously the spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 12)- we each have different ones and different ways of discerning certain situations yes and that is incredible!

But your Church needs ‘you’.. not just your giftings. You are just as important as any of those on the ‘leadership teams’.
As a body is made up of several different parts the Church is made up of several different people with different giftings, experiences and personalities. So why does your church need you?

It needs your honesty and vulnerability.

It desperately needs your willingness to relate to people where others cannot.

Your pastor can’t do it all- if you’ve been through a tough situation you will probably have needed somebody that could relate to that.. ‘you’ are that person in your church.

You are the single mum who new single mums come to chat to when they face tough times and need somebody that ‘gets it’

You are the guy who has overcome an addiction that your pastor knows will hold others accountable.

You are the married couple who went through really tough times and now have the knowledge enough to help others.

 

Please don’t go to church just for you… go and be you.

 

Be incredible you.

 

Women today face much more pressure than ever… Yes it’s a cliche but I’m not talking about pressure from the media or social media to be the next ‘super mum’ (we all know she doesn’t exist).

The worst pressure a woman feels is from herself, we live surrounded by ideals. There’s the image of the perfect wife and super mum all over social media, the perfect colleague when you return to work that you have to try and equal not mentioning the image perfect models we see pretty much everywhere.

So we wake up and then try to get everything perfect, we try to work out and eat great, keep the house clean as well as play hide and seek whilst cooking for the family. Yet deep inside there’s an emptiness. There is so much pressure to be someone else’s ideal of a wife or mum that we lose who we truely are made to be.

If we were all called to be stay at home mummies who manage to work out two hours a day and eat great all the time it would be fine – but we’re not. If we want to raise our children to be true to theirselves we need to first be true to ourselves.

Go and work for the career you always wanted, leave the housework, don’t feel rushed into getting married if you’re not ready and don’t apologise for not having children yet.

Life is short but that doesn’t mean we need to all fit a mould. Each one of us is totally different and yet all amazing.. We are capable of raising the next generation of doctors and scientists so let’s be a little gentler on ourselves and to eachother.

 

Some of the incredible women that inspire me ❤

 

Today go and tell that woman how much she inspires you- the nurse who sees her children for a few hours in the morning because she goes out and saves lives. The hairdresser you know will be the only source of conversation some people have today and most importantly yourself.. Yep you! You’re doing a great job just being you.