The heart… of Easter thoughts… echoed today… in my reading… and my radio…
What does it mean… to be a true follower… to be Church…? How do you know… if you’re really… still in the dark…?
My morning treadmill read…
I want this to come across as more of a challenge than a criticism, but I’m afraid we’ve turned church into a spectator sport. Too many of us are content with letting a spiritual leader seek God for us. Like the Israelites, we want Moses to climb the mountain for us. After all, it is much easier to let someone else pray for us or study for us. So the church unintentionally fosters a subtle form of spiritual codependency. …
But do you really think God’s ultimate dream for your life is to see you sit in a pew for ninety minutes every week listening to a message and singing a few songs? Is that the barometer of spiritual maturity? No way!
It is the common experience of men and women all across this land to go to church regularly every Sunday, and for all intents and purposes, the Book of the Law might as well be lost for they never open it…
And how in the world do you begin to show people who already consider themselves Christians what it really means to follow Christ?
So… it may be time… to listen anew… stir things up… in church…
‘No servant is greater than his master.’
If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.
If they obeyed my teaching they will obey yours also. …”
—Jesus
and said: “If anyone would come after me,
he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. …”
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