What does Jesus have to do with the institution of the church?  Why should I give time and money to support it? I want to focus this morning on two answers to that question. First and foremost, the answer is that Jesus wants to pitch his tent here among us. In Jesus the eternal Word of God became flesh and moved into the neighborhood, and God wants to set up shop and take on flesh here in this neighborhood too. That’s the first reason.You might call it the incarnational logic of Christianity—God wants to be as real and present here in Oak Cliff on Kiest Boulevard as the coffee shop or the elementary school or the 7-11. The second reason is tied to the first—when God moves into the neighborhood he wants to gather together a people, a forgiven and reconciled community drawn from every nation and tribe, doing what Jesus does and going where Jesus goes. Jesus has a mission for us, and it’s a mission that we can only carry out together.