I have always been struck by how I sometimes treat the church. This dilemma for the church is that it can too easily become like McDonalds. I believe I have to relearn what Jesus Christ intended the church to be. It is not a drive through spiritual fast food stand. Often when I/we think of church we immediately think of a building. We think of a physical meeting place where a bunch of people get together and do churchy things. The church, though, is not a building, but a people. It is more like a family style restaurant in which you are served and then serve. The church is you, me and others that confess Jesus Christ as Lord and seek God's Kingdom by engaging spiritual practices and living them out in community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer expresses it this way. "Christian community is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate."  I think that it is our participation in God's Kingdom that confronts our complacency and 'keep our eyes on the ball'.....that is creating an open space for God to work in your life.