Monday, April 6, 2009

Being brave enough to jump out of the boiling water

Today I'm wondering how you stay in a place when you feel like so few people are "fighting the good fight" with you.  I am discouraged by the lack of commitment I see in today's church body.  Whether it is to view the church as a social club and be over-involved in "good" things or, to another extreme, just simply not be part of a local body of believers and have church with whatever television preacher you like best.  It's all a method to avoid the higher calling every Christian has to work the field to produce a harvest for the Kingdom of Christ.  It simply saddens me that as Christians in today's world, we can look at our surroundings and be okay with them.  

I'm sure you've heard the old analogy of the frog who's put in a boiling pot of water.  He'll jump out if the pot is already hot.  But put him in the water while it's cold and let it heat up with him in the pot, and he doesn't even notice he's dying.  That's how I see the Christian community today.  We're in the pot and we have been for some time now.  The water's boiling!!  And we don't even notice we're dying in this world.  The Christian community is at risk of becoming extinct by way of ineffectiveness at the rate we're going.  And the majority of us are so comfortable with it, we don't even recognize conviction when it tugs at our hearts. 

I, for one, want to jump out and cling to my Bible, my morals and, most importantly, my Lord.  Anyone with me?

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