A Changing Time
This summer I feel in love with Acts. It ripped open my mind with things that needed to be done. It was a part of the Rocking of my world that God did. Acts calls us to be a body of christ, it calls us to share the gospel with everyone we come into contact with, it calls us to take care of one another and encourage each other. How much of that are we really doing? Are competeing as churches instead of working together? Don't we live in a me world? The challenging question for Christians is that if one of us loses a job and one says it is our responsiblity to take care of them so they won't lose their job or go hungry, who's with me? How many of us would say, I'm in?
This is a problem in the world is that we are worried about numbers. We are worried about who is coming in, instead of what is being learned. When I found a conflict between ministries I found competition and frusteration. What I needed to find that it didn't matter as long as they were hearing God. Thats all it matters, no matter where it may be.
We are called to Act like God did, after all you may be the only Bible some people read. When a deacon at a church worships with someone that doesn't fit the sterotype of the church crowd instead of kicking him out, it makes an impact. Who are we spending our time with? Other Christians in a comfortable world or those who are dead and need life in Christ?
What kind of impact can we make though if our fellow brothers and sisters are not there for encouragement, for fellowship, for prayer? We are a team working for God. We are no longer alive but God is alive in us. We are His hands, His feet, made to His work.
A Changing Time
