Your church stinks!

Each church should be individual. It should be different.

It should look like no other, have jokes that won't be heard elsewhere, have a unique sound and even smell a tad special (thus the title!).

Tonight the youth group i organise will be heading to another church. And it will be different. Just like it was last term when we combined with another group at their church.

And that's okay. It's to be expected.

They will have a different mix or people, ages, cultures and leadership than the church down the road or the mega church on the other side of the globe.

Perhaps churches need to embrace their stench more.

To realise that their musicians won't sound like Hillsong United, but like that their band sounds different. To appreciate the way that their church worships and the preaching they hear, even if it is not streamed live into people's televisions.

Churches ultimately aren't meant to be carbon copies of each other and we are actually weakened when they are.