I have been listening to Francis Chan lately (if you can't tell from my FB post). I am stirred in my soul. I have rediscovered the kind of Christian I want to be. I had almost forgotten. I had forgotten the Christian I used to be. The believer who knew that God is not moved by the newness of the years or the age of time. I had forgotten that stuff didn't matter, but that character and charity were of utmost importance.
Reading the Bible the way I used to read it brought me to this renewal of the real press. I had become dull by the sweet motivational messages of the "global church" I put global church in quotes because it is not the true church that does not preach the gospel. It promotes not the messages of the Bible - the ones I am called to live. They are not the sacrificial, working out your salvation with fear and trembling messages - the messages I love that keep me near the cross.
I knew that something had eluded me. I knew I had missed something when I looked around and didn't see Peter, Paul or Stephen sitting next to me, or better yet, in me.
I'm back now. I get it - praise God! I get that I am nothing without God and His word. I have moved from my lukewarm place of serving.
Reading the Bible the way I used to read it brought me to this renewal of the real press. I had become dull by the sweet motivational messages of the "global church" I put global church in quotes because it is not the true church that does not preach the gospel. It promotes not the messages of the Bible - the ones I am called to live. They are not the sacrificial, working out your salvation with fear and trembling messages - the messages I love that keep me near the cross.
I knew that something had eluded me. I knew I had missed something when I looked around and didn't see Peter, Paul or Stephen sitting next to me, or better yet, in me.
I'm back now. I get it - praise God! I get that I am nothing without God and His word. I have moved from my lukewarm place of serving.
