Being the Church #24

We talked yesterday about keeping the main thing the main thing. The Church's main responsibility is taking the Good News of Christ to all people. This passage in Isaiah 56 pointed to that centuries before Christ came:

 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
for soon my salvation will come,
    and my righteousness be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
    and the son of man who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
    and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
    “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me
    and hold fast my covenant,
5 I will give in my house and within my walls
    a monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.
6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
    to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
    and holds fast my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain,
    and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
    will be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
    for all peoples.”
8 The Lord God,
    who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
“I will gather yet others to him
    besides those already gathered.

God said: "Live out your relationship with me by opening your hearts those who are outsiders - those who need to be brought in."  It is this passage that Jesus alluded to when he cleansed the temple and yelled at the Jewish leaders for cluttering up The Court of the Gentiles - the only place foreigners were allowed in the temple.  They were violating this call in Isaiah 56, making it hard for these outsiders to even come in and obey the Sabbath and call out to God in prayer.  What are we doing that makes it hard for those outside of the Body of Christ to come in and find Him?