Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other
useless activities. Fear God instead.
‘In the last
days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and
daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will
dream dreams.
There are people who accuse me of being out there
somewhere. This is usually the person
who has heard my dreams or who has watched what our church does. In fact, I love to share the direction that
God has given our church and me.
It happened again today. No, the comment wasn’t directed totally
toward me. It was a video made after he
watched another video. I was a bit put
off by the guys remarks.
Yet I understand that if we do what God has called us
to do we will seem radical. Lots of
people through the last 5 years have asked why we serve all these people or do
the kind things we do. The answer is
pretty simple. We are doing what we
believe God called us to do. That means
we cannot be normal or nominal.
In fact what most people see as normal Christianity
or following Jesus is nominal or minimal and almost non-existent Christianity. My prayer is that we will see people as God
sees them, and God offers people grace over and over and over and over
again. We ought to do the same
thing. I didn’t say let people step on
you. I didn’t say let people steal from you.
I did say that we can offer people real grace in the way we respond to
and love them in the name of Jesus.
So, if someone says I’m out there somewhere because
of what Jesus said to do, I am ok with that.
Are you? Some may say I have a
problem. Others may even accuse us of
being way off base. But I will be erring
on the side of grace over and over and over again.
May God use us to be radically different so that
people will meet our God who is radically different as well. I don’t mind being out there somewhere as
long as I can reach others who are out there somewhere. Does that make sense to you? It does to me!
men who have
risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(men of whom
the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and
holes in the ground.
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