The Church Will Go Out

A poem by Len Turner that Pastor Allard read to us at Prayer Meeting.   The words spoke to me as I hope they will speak to you..

Jesus called the church out (Mark 1:20, 2 Corinthians 6:17).
Jesus bought the church out (Acts 20:28).
Jesus sent the church out (Mark 16:15),
and one day Jesus will straighten the church out (Ephesians 5:25-28).
Our only option is which way the church is going out.
We have but two choices of exits.

My church will go out in evangelism and missions or go out of existence.
It will go out on the Lord’s business or go out of business.
It will make haste to go out after people or it will run out of people.
It will go out in dedication to its mission or it will go out in default of its mission.
It will go out in compassion or it will go out through complacency.

We are going out as a church.
It is out to our work or out to our withering.
It is out by doing or out by dying.
We are going out victors in performance
or we are going out as victims of self-induced paralysis.
We are on our way out to missions or out to the mortician.
Our outcome depends upon our out go.

At the time of writing (date unknown), Len Turner was Associate Pastor of Cottage Hill Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama.