A Post-calyptic Rolling Rant Without The Emotion That Would Have Embarrassed Me In The Past

Some of you may not be familiar with what I am speaking about in this video. It is not an anti-church statement....or one against being taught. Bottom line, I believe that it is the duty of every follower of Christ to pursue him and allow the Holy Spirit to teach us.

It shouldn't be up to the guy who stands up front every Sunday morning (and Saturday night) to be the one who makes sure you "Do your homework" so to speak. Our time together corporately (at church or at a meeting) should be a time of instruction and teaching...a time of encouragement and edification. But then, when we leave, it should be on all our shoulders to grow in Christ. We should be running into divine appointments God places before us. Opportunities to pray with people and to serve people. To see people get healed or set free from demonic spirits. 

It should be a time of study in God's word as we digest and feed on it. Once our stomachs are full, we should look for opportunities to exercise what we have read. Far too many are content to go to church, put money in the offering plate, sing the songs, listen to the sermon and leave. Leave, only to come back for the next meeting and do it all over again. 

We somehow fall into the trap of believing that showing up is all there is to this whole Jesus thing. Wouldn't it be great that if next Sunday (or Saturday night) you went to church and no one was there? Wouldn't it be great if there was a sign on the door that said, "Gone Fishing"? That everyone who was a part of that fellowship was out "doing the stuff" that Jesus did. 

Bottom line....
God wants to talk to you, personally.
God wants to teach you daily.
God wants to reveal his love for you every minute of every day.
God wants us to give that love away....beyond the walls of the church.
Sometimes I think we take that whole "you are the salt of the earth" thing to the point that we agree...."Yes! We are the salt of the earth". But we use the church like a salt shaker, all the while praying that we aren't shaken out of the comfort of the container. Sorry...salt is no good if it stays in the shaker. It has to turned upside down and violently shaken...then it falls out and accomplishes what salt was intended to do. Flavor...season...preserve....
Let's be salt!
What do you say?"

God on you...