Maybe our faith is weak and messed up because we keep looking at it as a personal salve to be applied to our own problems, rather than doing as we are called, and dying to self. Maybe, just maybe, if we stopped focusing on our “personal walk with Jesus” and started realizing we were not saved into an enclave of “me and Jesus,” but rather we were saved into a church.
Church is not the place where we go and learn how to be alone with Jesus. It is the place where an Army gathers, bandages its wounds, gains encouragement and further training , then returns to the battlefield.
The church is not God’s backup plan (or as some say a parenthesis in Gods redemptive plan). God does not need backup plans, His plans are perfect from the beginning. So what is happening here and now was the original plan all along.
This means that if you are saved, you are in Christ, then you are enlisted. Enlisted in the Army that Christ is building, his church. And if you are in that Army you have a job, use the talents God gave you to move the cause forward. Not to sit stagnant worrying about your own wounds, God has gifted others in the church to tend to those. You need to look at what your supposed to be doing for Christ. Are you a leader, a trainer, a logistician, an administrator, a nurse, a caregiver, a teacher, or a musician. All these have a purpose in the Army.
Last note….maybe your gift is recruiting. If so go tell the good news and gather in the rest of the Army from the streets. But for everyone else who may not necessarily be gifted in that area, but God has gifted you with children. Your job is not to recruit them. You not called to convince them to join our side in the war, you are to teach them how to fight and how to fight effectively from day one. God has and always will build his people through covenant relationships, the most basic of these is our marriages and the fruits of that marriage.
Turn away from mediocre Christianity that focuses on you. That’s not why Christ came, he came to build, he came to redeem, he came as a conquering King.
The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
Psalm 110:1
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