At Unleash, Senior Pastor Perry Noble said this,"A move of God is messy!"
When God moves, people are brought to him. The people who come are not of the clean cut, white collar variety. They are the people who need God. Now, I'm not saying that people who need God look a certain way, I am just suggesting that we need to re-think the way that we see lost people. Even more, we need to re-think the way that we see Christians!
Hidey-Ho Neighborino! I'll bet if you ask people what their idea of a Christian is, you'll get a description that closely resembles Ned Flanders. I can just hear the accusations of sweater vests running through my head. But I can tell you this, the only sweater vests that I see at my church are visitors. People come to Revolution Church thinking that you need to be dressed a certain way. Imaging their horror, or relief, when they see skulls and flip-flops everywhere they look. You see, Christians are portrayed by the media to be soft. It will always remain that way until Christians fight for their image and the way that they are perceived. By the way, Christians should not be viewed as being "safe."
Being safe was never part of God's plan. If He was going to keep anyone safe, He would have kept Jesus safe. Following God's will and plan cost Jesus his life. Even the people who were the closest to Jesus were in constant danger. Some of them were killed and some where put in prison. You need to kill this misconception that being a christian is safe. It is dangerous and it is MESSY!
Christians themselves are MESSY! At any given time at my church, I am in the presence of crack addicts, meth addicts, porn addicts, spouse abusers, thieves, alcohol abusers, the list goes on and on. But these people are trying to put their pasts behind them and discover what God has planned for their lives. No that is MESSY! Just imagine, people can stop seeing you as Ned Flanders and start seeing you for what you really are, a big MESSY God loving Christian!
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Great post. I was told by someone I work with that I could never be a member of their church because I am divorced. He said it was because the church membership needed to be kept "pure". Doesn't matter if your spouse is the one that left.. your membership is rescinded.. Oh. you can still "attend" if you want.. but would the heck would want to? I'm glad Jesus didn't feel that way. I mean just look at those closest to Him. Just sayin..that those typeof Christians can foster this perception by their behaviour sometimes. (yes it is monday so I may not be typing what I'm thinking)
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