Check your Posture

Recently I find myself constantly nagging my kids about various things.
Lately it's been posture.
Why don't the just sit at the table like normal human beings?

An article defined posture as an "attitude of the body: the nonverbal forms of communication that accompany what we say."
Words communicate what we know.
Posture communicates what we feel and believe.

Our posture will often determine what we get to say, who will listen, and how they will respond.

The church must always ask itself- what's our posture in the community?
We have postured ourselves in a middle of the commercial and entertainment centre of North London- the movie theatre.
We posture ourselves in people's homes.
That's basically it.
But that's exactly what we've wanted to posture to London- we don't need a building or an office at this stage.
We want to meet you where you're at.
We want to invite you into our homes.
I think that's an AWESOME posture for a church to start with.

We must also ask/examine how we are posturing ourselves in our family, neighborhood and community.
How would your kids, your neighbors, your co-workers describe your posture?
What adjectives would they use:
Humble, or arrogant?
Welcoming, or unapproachable?
Loving, or hating?
Jaded, or joyful?
Hypocrite, or authentic?

Check this out, 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8,
"...we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children. We love you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us."

People are going to care much more about our posture before they care about our words.