Dean Kelly, author of “Why Conservative Churches Are
Growing,” proclaims that the reason any church grows is that it sticks
to business. What is the main business of the church? It is to keep
referring and pointing people toward God, to keep viewing the world
under God, to keep the God question on the table, to keep asking, in
all of its thought and life together, “What does this have to do with
God?” Kelly reminds us that churches decline when they forget,
“It’s about God.” If a church falls into the trap of “maintaining the
church,” quite often they lose sight of what the business of the church
really is, involving people in the Holy. Churches need to keep it about
God. As we share together in ministry and the business of the church
let us be sure to ask the question, “What does this have to do with
God?”
Rev. Chuck Burns
Rev. Chuck Burns