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<\/iframe>\n<\/p>I believe in the church maybe more than I believe in any other thing in this world. The church is the surest sign I know of that God loves everything he\u2019s created; that God is not done with the world. The church is the singular reality bearing faithful witness to the truth that God has not left us here to struggle all by ourselves. God has come for us, to heal our broken hearts and this precious creation no matter how long it takes.<\/p>\nBut the church is facing a huge problem, and it is not a problem of resistance or secularity, nor is it a problem of the culture\u2019s hostility to the gospel. It is a problem of our own making. We have become enamored with size. We have become infatuated with all things bigger, better, stronger, higher, and faster.<\/p>\nIf we are to be wise stewards of the church, we will need to recognize what it seems nearly all of our most celebrated contemporary church leaders have failed to teach us: that the church does not belong to us; it is we who belong to the church. We are not making the church; the church is making us. We cannot determine its\u00a0success<\/em>, its\u00a0mission,<\/em>\u00a0or its\u00a0outcomes.<\/em><\/p>\nThe church will outlive all of us, that much is certain. If we are going to leave the church better than we found it, we are going to have to rediscover the necessity of\u00a0margins<\/em>\u00a0and the reality of\u00a0limits.<\/em>\u00a0We are going to have to sit in silence for long enough to comprehend finally the word\u00a0enough.<\/em>\u00a0We will have to strain to see the tiny seeds of faith at work in the world around us and hold them in our sweaty palms, hoping against hope that they will germinate and grow and feed us. And we are going to have to stop our incessant need to make things\u00a0grow<\/em>\u00a0the way we want them to grow, whatever the price.<\/p>\nMy hope for the church is that we will find the courage to stop worrying so much about what will make us\u00a0successful,<\/em>\u00a0and simply\u00a0focus on how we can be\u00a0faithful;<\/em>\u00a0that we will stand in the world as our own vulnerable selves offering nothing less than our very lives, and then leave the results and numbers up to God. In many ways that will most certainly be uncomfortable and challenging for us, because most people will not want this kind of life. This is the narrow road. So if we want to follow Jesus, we are going to have to learn how to\u00a0Shrink<\/em>.<\/p>\nPlease share this post as widely as you dare, and thank you for your help in drawing attention to these ideas.<\/p>\n(This video was shot to be the Book Trailer for the book Shrink. It was filmed and edited by Bret Borquin at StoryLight in Kansas City. Thank you to Heartland Community C<\/em>hurch for allowing us to film in their atrium. For information on my other projects, go to\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #112233;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timsuttle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">TimSuttle.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shrink-Faithful-Ministry-Church-Growth-Culture\/dp\/0310515122\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">purchase Shrink here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I believe in the church maybe more than I believe in any other thing in this world. The church is the surest sign I know of that God loves everything he\u2019s created; that God is not done with the world. 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