Throughout these past weeks, in my church, we have been studying the four Gospels by reading one chapter per day. Then, on Sunday the pastor would discuss the highlights of those seven chapters we read corresponding to that week. The deal is to read the four Gospels in 90 days and understand the concept that “Jesus Has Left the Building,” the name for these sermons’ series. This series of sermons have been an eye opener to me and I have even found things in the Gospels that I was unaware of or that I previously overlooked. 

This idea of “Jesus has left the building” is basically to illustrate that we, as followers of Jesus, are Jesus’ hands and feet; that Jesus is not confined to a structure; thus, we shouldn’t be living “double” lives—being one thing one day of the week and another thing the rest of the week. In a general sense, we—the church—should be a reflection of Jesus. If we are following Jesus and ask ourselves “what would Jesus do?” in a particular situation, we first need to know “what Jesus did.” Therefore, through these sermon series we are going through the Gospels to know Jesus, back to basics, back to our first love. Here’s this quote from Henry Blackaby that I find very revealing: