What’s the point?
What’s the point of going to church?* **

*I recognize that we don’t go to church, but we are the church. But you know what I mean.
**I’m not asking this in a sarcastic or contentious way, despite the abruptness of the question. Nor do I think that there isn’t a point in going to church.
What would 2008 look like…
if God’s people embodied the spirit of Paul’s prayer?
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9–11)

Thursday Quick Question
What doctrines, beliefs, theology or orthodoxies are essential to being “in the fold” (accepted by Christ)?