It sickens me, in case you want to know...

The laziness of Christ followers in America sickens me. The lack of backbone among our leaders sickens me. All this focus on more and more churches and more and more styles and more and more clever approaches to draw people in, sickens me. I could go on...

I love the phrase (the worn out one) "that if we always do what we've always done we will always get what we've always gotten". It is so true in the American missionally ineffective church. We keep getting what we ask for.

When will pastors stop sugar coating the expectations of Jesus. When we we look our congregations in the eye and tell them the real cost of following Jesus. Why do we baby our people with pampers, pacifiers, and Popsicles? When will we tell them how immature and lazy and disobedient they are for not engaging those without Christ? Will we ever point out the fact that they are not obeying the Great Commission? At what place in time will we show them the life of Jesus and what it means to do what He did in making disciples.? What holds us back from not making Sunday gig the main thing? When will we stop making more reasons to attract people to us and instead begin attracting people to Jesus through our lives? Let's get some backbone...

The sad thing and hard to digest truth is that we have enabled Christ followers to "go to church" instead of "being" the church. Christ followers don't need the gig, they need the fulfillment that comes by possessing a passion to get involved in the lives of the unreached and then watch God change them right before their eyes.

Why can't we stop enabling our congregations from being all Jesus calls us to be for Him? Instead we let em sit and give and serve a little and then call their duty done until next Sunday.