I wish....

I wish that we would just "can it" when it comes to a Sunday sermon, a state of the art Sunday service with all the trimmings of performance driven singing and music, classes to fill heads with knowlege and gather up all the stuff man views as success and just "chuck it all". That is, until we get the mission in the world right. Actually I wouldn't mind it if we got in wrong in the world as long as we could begin to see the priority of "being" the Church rather than "going to or attracting others" to your church.

It was at the sermon time when the pastor stood at the pulpit and said, "I'm not going to preach another sermon until you start doing all the stuff God has been telling us do and how to live. When you start obeying I'll be back with another sermon, until then you are dismissed."

Pastors and leaders, don't preach another sermon until the butts hit the streets. Let em fire you! Get a job somewhere else and work in the world and then lead those who will follow in a movement that lives incarnationally in the world so others can see Jesus in you and so that Christ can lead them in redemption through you. Let that be the main thing. Talk about freedom! Only until then will you be free to follow Jesus the way He always wanted in a missional disciples making disciples movement that cannot be stopped or controlled.

Jesus gave the greatest sermon of all when He rose from the deadand gave the apostled the command to pass onto all believers to make disciples. Who was I and who are you to think your sermon is more important or effective than His. If Christ followers won't follow His purposes what makes you think they will follow yours.