Erwin McManus says christians act as if the Great Commission of today is "Come, Sit, Listen". How did we get to this point in Christianity? We live in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and it is alive and growing! There's a song by Lifehouse called Everything, the words say "how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you, oh can you tell how can it be any better than this". We should be moved into the world to share Christ. Paul writes in Colossians "by Him all things where created and in Him all things hold together. He tell us in Romans 8:11 that we have the same Spirit living in us that raised Jesus from the dead. WOW, did you hear that? What more do we need as believers to move us out of the pews and into life with Him in His glorious kingdom?
I believe it is impossible to be in a true relationship with God and be satisfied with just hearing cool things about Him on Sundays. If my relationship with my wife consisted of someone else telling me about her a few hours a week, where would my relationship be with her? How could I truly love her or know her intimately? I surly would not be able to talk about her with any kind of passion. She would really not much effect on my day to day life at all. My relationship with her in natural, tough, wonderful, growing, full of mistakes, but full of grace, it all comes through trusting, loving, talking, laughing, and simply sharing life together. Life with Jesus should look a lot like that. He should be a natural expression of who we are, and all we are becoming
Let's let our lives reflect Christ and what he is doing in our hearts second by second. Let's move beyond Sunday morning sermons and fifteen minute devotional and let's Him into all aspects of our lives. Let's reclaim and restore the Great Commission to it's original intent GO, and tell the world so that they can live!
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