Everyday I wake up and go out into a hurt and dying world. One without Jesus, and one that may never get to know Him. Everyday I hear someone say that they can't trust in God because they have never seen His love. Everyday I see the world do more to help hurting people in their sadly small ways, but still try, and see the church of God continually retreat.
People!!!! Wake up! Where are you? We have a lost and dying world out there, because we let them be that way!!! These people don't want to hear your sales pitch on fire insurance. They don't care how scary the afterlife might be. Right now, these people are trying to live in today and have themselves in constant need of a Savior, and we the redeemed church of God, can't seem to find Him anywhere to share Him with our lost and dying world.
If we say we believe in God, why as a church are we not walking in the power and authority of Jesus Christ? Why are our young people dying of disease? Why are so many on drugs? Why are so many young people becoming parents before they've learned what it means to be a child? What are they searching for that we haven't given them?
If we have the power of the Holy Spirit in us, why aren't people getting delivered of their diseases? Why aren't we laying hands on the sick and expecting healing? Why do we criticize our nations leaders, but refuse to pray in Jesus name believing and expecting that He will guide and direct our leaders to make the right decisions? Why are we not showing love to our dying world? Why aren't we going into the bars and eating and drinking with the folks who need Jesus so bad? Why aren't we on the street next to the junkie, not handing him a track he'll use to roll a joint later, but to love him and be his friend? Where are we when the girls start to whore themselves out just looking for someone to hold them for five minutes and tell them they are loved? When was the last time we took a radical Jesus out to our extreme world? When will we decide that we need to have an extreme, personal, experience with God ourselves? When will we decide that our God bubble isn't good enough anymore?
I want to challenge you. Are you ready to meet Jesus for real? This same Jesus that we were told pretty little stories about our whole lives, came to our world once and sat with the whores, the pierced, tattooed, demon worshipers, adulterers, the folks with the STD's, the thieves, the societal outcasts, and He talked with them. He humanized them. They suddenly weren't the fleas of society, but they were people, real people. He loved them, because they deserved to be loved. He forgave them, because they needed forgiveness. He healed them, because Jesus came to make this sick and dying world whole. Not kinda whole, not sorta whole, not mostly whole, but whole whole. When as a church will we be willing to accept this kind of Jesus, and then turn around and be Jesus to our world?
