“In addition, every man who was desperate, in debt, or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.” (v. 2)

Think about the makeup of your church.

I’ll make a few guesses here:

With limited exception, your church is made up of people who look similar, who fall within pretty comparable income brackets, driving relatively equivalent vehicles, with the same generally cleaned-up moral-cultural reputation. That might not describe the whole gathering—but it’s probably largely accurate.

But…is that how church ought to look?

I think we could learn a lot from David’s circle here: Here’s a guy who is purposed by God for God’s things—but he’s not running with the mainstream. He’s got a ragtag, outcast, out-of luck and out-of-hope community group. He could have done a detailed demography and recruited Israel’s best and brightest to his side. Instead, he went on the adventure, and he gathered up the people who were otherwise left out.

Maybe the church ought to look a little more like that.

— Tyler