Restore What?

As I mentioned earlier about my parents restoring a 1906 house and the lessons I have learned to this day have helped shape me in my personal beliefs about a number of issues.

Without going headlong into misunderstanding we need to be careful and ask ourselves what are we restoring?

My parents are good at having multiple jobs or projects on the house that they start with intentions of finishing sooner rather than later, but after they start a restoration process on the bathroom, kitchen, and dining room one has to wonder were they are spending their time and energy. The sooner aspect quickly becomes the later when one has many projects. To this day I do the same thing, I am good at starting projects, but terrible at finishing and this has been a personal goal and intention of mine over the last two years or so.

The Churches of Christ are known as the ones who are Restoring the New Testament church and this has caused a great deal of fury, church splits, and arrogance among many. The intentions may be good, but intentions are not what following Christ is about.

What are we restoring? We have focused much of our energy and attention on many particular areas of what defines a church, but last time I checked Christ is in the business of restoring people to Him.

I wonder if we have lost our focus and spent much of our time and energy on restoring external matters and not focused energy on the one thing of restoring people to Christ about internal matters of his or her soul.