Okay, so this post is going to upset its share of people.  I am truly wondering where the Christian church got the idea that we ought to invite the unsaved to church?  That somehow, they will be saved if only they would come to church.  Like the Holy Spirit is just waiting in a pew somewhere to change the heart of the first unsaved person to enter through the church doors.  I have done this myself and as I explore these thoughts I am convicted.  Now, the church is the body of Christ and each of us are a part.  Even the least of all parts, say the pinky toe, is still an important and part and needed for the body on a whole to function properly.  Okay, stay with me here…say include the member of another body, one not made in the image of God, say we attach the hoof of a pig instead of the little pinky toe, then what?  Could it be that this is what has caused the church body to be so ineffective? 

The Great Commission charges that we GO and make disciples.  We are not instructed to invite them into our sterile environment.   Jesus went to the home of Matthew the tax collection and ate in the company of sinners.  He did not bring them to the temple to be taught. 

We call ourselves the Evangelical Church yet we think we are doing our part in telling the good news to invite our friends or neighbors to church.   When was the last time you shared with them what Christ has done for you that morning?  Have you made disciples?  Have you told them what it means to follow Him?  I have fallen short and I suspect that I have had my fair share of pearls trampled by swine.