Life!
We are surrounded by a world that is looking for a real, "purposeful" life. The problem is that they are not finding it. Even inside our churches, members and visitors alike are searching for a life worth living. People are bored in our churches! In John 10:10 it says, "The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly!" We are called to have abundant life! We are not called to sit in a pew on a Sunday morning, Sunday night and maybe (if we are good little Christians) Wednesday nights. Jesus did not call us to come and sit... to be bored to our spiritual death. He called us to come to LIFE, and not just any life, abundant life! Abundant life does not include spiritual boredom or monotonous programs. When we, the body of the Church, can come to grips with this passage... there will no longer be any need for books that hold in it "40 days of purpose". As G.K. Chesterton so eloquently said, "Jesus promised his disciples three things – that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble". If you are a believer, you are a disciple. Do not look at that quote as a great quote about just people who physically walked with Jesus. This, I believe, is also a summary of what Jesus promised us, Christians, in the 21st century.
posted by Matthew "MO" Olszewski at 2/02/2006
2 Comments:
Touche my friend... touche.
A reason that people are bored in the church is becasue they may believe that you can be a believer and not a disciple. This is probably becasue they do not know what a disciple is. Many assume that a disciple is someone who live and walked with Jesus in the 1st century. They don't understand that a disciple is a student. And we know that being a student requires work and challenges. If people understood that being a believer mean you are also to be a disciple there may be many less believers.
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