Even after we discover the story we are living in, there are invisible forces that pull us off course. Gravity holds us to the ground and keeps us from floating away, but it also drags us relentlessly downward when fall. In the same way, a black hole serves as a gravity well consuming everything within its pull. Even light cannot escape it. This is a good but painful metaphor for the evangelical church. While it has so much to offer the world, often it is a source of gravity that swallows whole the very precious resources that the world needs. Jesus unleashed an radical movement upon the world 2000 years ago when he commissioned his believers... but now the movement has been swallowed hole by the gravity of mega buildings, professionals, structure, procedure, and many other excuses... The Movement meant to change the world is now chained and motionless in many places.Some thoughts I am thinking about:
~God's intent was not that he would lavish love on a few lucky individuals, but that everyone would be restored to a loving fulfilling relationship with him...
~Christianity can become a monument to itself… When this happens, our faith goes stale, because it was meant to make a difference… without that difference, it is pointless..
~Whose Kingdom am I building? Even the early church, in all of its beauty, had to be “scattered” IT was having such a good time together that it did not want to part ways…
~But... Tearing down the Kingdom of Man, is not the same as building the kingdom of God… we are called to build… If you Faith has not touched the lives of those around us, it is not COMPLETE.
~Is the world a better place because of the presence of the Church of Christ?
~Is Milwaukee a better place because I am a Christian.
~What's my carbon footprint... ?
~If everyone in the world had the typical Christian attitude about __________ would Milwaukee be better?
