Imagine you’re at a football game. What’s your favorite part? Some people like a good run while some love a good hit. Whatever your favorite part is, I bet it’s not the huddle. Imagine if you went to a football game and the team is in a huddle. The quarterback, who is fired up gets his play from the coach, tells the team what they are going to do, and then the whole team breaks and runs back to the bench. Then moments later the team, fired up, gets back on the field, huddles up and the quarterback yells “breaks!”, then they sprint back to the bench. After a while you’re probably thinking, “This is lame!”
I have been reading Acts and looking at the church today. Something is not right. In the midst of all this I have been coming across sermons where pastors are speaking on whats wrong with the church.
The church today and the church of Acts look nothing alike.
In Acts no one took hold of their processions. They understood that it was all God’s. People were selling all of their land and giving it to the church to disperse to the less fortunate. Today we can’t even give the 10%.
In Acts people showed love to everyone. Thousands were being saved daily. Today we camp on street corners with megaphones and shout out to people reasons their going to hell. Or we present the gospel as a message of hate.
In Acts people gave their life to Christ knowing that they would either be killed or put in jail, and there was no other option. Today we don’t attend church if it’s raining or if we were up to late the night before.
Christianity today looks like the football illustration I mentioned early, who I heard from Francis Chan. We get in our churches that are made for “church people” every Sunday. Then yell break, and get back to our worldly lives. Then on Sunday we huddle up again and get fired up about what we should be doing.
The world is tired of watching Christians huddle up. Why would they want to give their life to Christ when they look at us. All Christianity looks like today is another world religion. To the world Christianity is just things you won’t be able to do, or things that you have to give up to follow God.
That is not in the bible I read. Christianity today what the bible states it should be. Christianity in the bible isn’t even a religion; it’s a relationship with your creator.
Anyone could do their research and have enough evidence to prove that there is a creator. You cannot logically look at the world and say that we all happened by some random chance. It should be a lot harder to believe there is no God, but we have made it to where it is.
Let’s be the church what God intended. Let this generation change the world.
As the church we separate ourselves from the world. I have heard many sermons on how we should only associate with our Christ following friends and peers.
Is this what Jesus would have wanted? The man who spent the majority of his time with tax collectors, prostitutes and drunks.
The only way you can lead someone to Christ is through love. If you are truly a Christian you have been born again, and Christ lives in you through the Holy Spirit.
We must get back into the world and be the church. We must get back into the world, with our new mindsets and new hearts and show God’s love.
No one would look at the majority of today’s Christians and say “that’s what I want”. Let’s be who Christ intended us to be and spread the gospel through our actions and not just through words.
I am the worst at this and need this message myself.
May we allow the Holy Spirit to rain in our lives, and be the church that was written out in scripture years before us.
May this generation build a church that is full of Christ centered individuals, and get rid of the lukewarmness.
May we love others, the very way that Jesus Christ loves us.
your awesome! this so good!