B8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 22, 1995

_ Acceptance

By Reverend Kurt Herms
of the Pentecostal Church

As a relatively young pastor, to
whom. the Christian ministry is
still a novel undertaking, ques-
lions, issues, and personal experi-
ences are forging within me a
deep intrinsic purpose concerning
the role of the Christian church
within the community. I continue
to find myself asking questions
like; why docs the church exist?
What is the role of the Christian
church in its setting? What are we
really here for?

Such questions are not merely
exploralory exercises in search of
an identity for the church, they
are Vehicles of discovery to real-
ize the Identity that Jesus has al-
ready given the church. In the
tile of and throughout his book,
Love, Acceptance & Forgiveness
{Regal baoks, 1979), pastor Jerry
Cook defines well the character-
istics of Christ’s three-fold
mandate for the Church. Should
they be confused, these three
characteristics are _ not
synonymous with tolerance or
permissiveness toward wrong
doing, they are rather an attitude
of acceptance toward the one
doing wrong,

Cook suggests there are two
possible places that churches may
choose to fulfill their role within
the communily. The place each
individual church chooses to pro-
vide ministry is crucial.

The first of these two places
Cook summarizes in the concept
of the church asa field and the
second is the church as a force.
The church as a field is organiza-
tional and structural. It can be
likened to a farmers field where ©
people assemble to do work, The.
church then becomes the field
where the work of God is. done.
This is a self-centered approach
to meeting the necds of people
and makes for quaint social clubs.
It is an inward reach, an inward
perspective.

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In contmst, the model of the
church as a force is characterized
by an outward reach. It -is

centered on the premise that the —

community surrounding it is the
field of need, It is people
centered, In this model the church
becomes & training ground for
people to go and meet the needs
of other people.

When the church buys into the
concept of the Christian meeting
place as the field, it has falled to
see, as Jesus saw, the community
as the field and has departed from
Christ’s original mandate for
Christians to be workers in the
field of the community,

The role of the church in the
community is ordinary people
meeting others one on one at their
point of need to more effectively
meet needs and fulfill God’s
command fo love, accept and for-
give others unconditionally.

This is the end to which we as
the Christian community in Ter-
race strive. We exist to live love,
acceptance and forgiveness to
hurting people. In the same way
that Christ spent his life on earth
secking those who burt and had
needs, the church exists in the
community to spread the hope of
love, acceptance and forgiveness
for those in need.

The above column is one in a
series of articles from the Terrace
Ministerial Association, and ex-
presses the views of the author,

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