The Church We Need (Discovery Series Booklet)

Members of the church are never justified in feeling they can go it alone.

The church we need is one that gives us a taste of what it would have been like to walk the dusty roads of Israel with the church's Founder. While we will never find a church as perfect as He is, and while there is no such thing as a church where members walk on water, we need to find a church that sees people the way He did.

As we look for that kind of church, there is something to keep in mind: A wise proverb says, "A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet" (Prov. 27:7). Only when we are broken and emptied of our own self-sufficiency will we value other imperfect, broken people who have found in the church, the body of Christ, a genuine source of forgiveness, honesty, and love.