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Big Church…Small Minded

When I committed to posting blog articles daily last month I did not think that a month in I’d want to post two per day. I’ve noticed that activity in anything I set out to create almost always stimulates further activity.

It’s the same way with inactivity.

So Imagine how much more of the work of Jesus Christ would happen if Christians were active. And were not stuck in the tradition of sitting idle and watching others “let their light shine” professionally on Sunday mornings!!

•How many more church meetings would be scheduled?

•How many more kids would start shining Jesus to their generation?

•How many more theologians would be writing books and sharing videos and podcasts?

•How many more Christians would even exist …if the church was active?, were trained to be active, trained and expected to bring a teaching or a song or an encouragement, or their extra finances to share with one another at every meeting? Then allowed and encouraged to share one by one?

I’d rather have a million small (30 member) churches that don’t have a building than a thousand big ones (500+ members) that do.

That is 30 times more Christians potentially who are active as opposed to 1/30th of that who let their clergy do the majority of the “work” and the sharing. The difference is incalculable, it would be like we were living on another planet.

Jesus people, bringing the kingdom of heaven down to earth.

Big-money church mentality is small-minded!

What Jesus started was much bigger and better, exponential means multiplication upon multiplication. Your pastor may be able to win 500 and handle 1000 if he is talented enough… but what happens when he moves away? Or retires or just quits? Likely collapse and dispersal of the body because it all rests on him.

It is not scale-able.

It serves a tiny, talented, clergy, and those ambitious enough to become clergy. It does not serve Jesus Christ well and not the masses of people he is after.

My prayer is that we (all Christians) together go back to following him and his plan for how and when to gather.

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Expose Jesus Instead

I have friends who have made it one of their missions in life to expose the evil works of Satan to anyone who will listen. They do this with good intention and are very effective at it. However, I think there is a far more effective way than persuasion. A way to expose him that the Lord himself began and is asking us to continue.

The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ itself shines light on the kingdom of darkness.

Neither John the Baptist nor Jesus nor the apostles spent a great deal of time and energy exposing the wickedness in their day. And there was plenty to go after!!

When his disciples would point evil out to them. He would simply say things like “leave them alone”, he basically said, “don’t listen to those guys”, or “their time is passing away.” He did not major on exposing them.

He majored instead on saying things like, “follow me”, “pick up your cross and follow me”, “I am the way”, “I am the door”, “before Abraham was, I AM”. He centered peoples attention on himself. And that’s what the ministry of the church is to be today. Exposing Satan will be a result, its like icing on the cake that we didn’t even plan on.

It happened naturally as he went, it can be fun but it is not a constant ministry in Jesus Christ. It’s a subset of a much greater ministry.

It’s far more fruitful to “expose” Jesus Christ than it is to expose Satan.

Expose Jesus Christ to the world then he will personally open peoples eyes to see Satan and his world system clearly.

If we become preoccupied with Satan, he will pull us down and tie us up for a lifetime with debate and theology and paranoia and anxiety.

But Jesus will have us walking on Satan’s head.

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A Healthy Obsession

To seek first Jesus Christ is to become absolutely obsessed with him.

After all it is the only reasonable response to really seeing and hearing him.

It is not to become weird and unrelateable to make people think you are spiritual and its not to become overly strict and judgmental in not sinning.

But it is a well thought-out “healthy obsession” with the best way for a human being to live.

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