So now to the blog at hand... There has been much mulling in my head over the past 6 months that I have been in NOLA - a lot of rethinking of what the church is about, and supposed to be about. I guess prior to this I was always on the lower end of the totem pole of power (not that I am any higher - but it seems like it maybe). Now that I am in conversation about the direction of a church, the vision, the actions, the potential - I find myself challenging what I have always known as church.
The real question to me is what are we getting ready for? I know that many church spend time talking about preparing yourself, and developing yourself for "that" time (at least in the charismatic sector of religious"ness"). But what are we really getting ready for anyways. I mean when we look at the life of Christ...what was he getting ready for? Some would say that He was getting ready to do His sacrifice for all men. I would disagree. I think took each day as it was. I think that He truly was God in the limitations and flesh of man.
-Side Note- was Jesus really a carpenter like everyone says? In those days to be a carpenter and study to become a rabbi didn't mix. We will leave that one for another convo - back to the matter at hand...
What are you getting ready for? Why do I always have to look forward to something? Why is it that when I look to something it hinders what I am doing today. I think the Bible has so many simple truths that we have made into our own Christian IRS TAX Law of 123,498 rules instead of making it simple. The simple truth is that we have a responsibility to deliver for today.
That is right. I said DELIVER for today. There is a task, responsibility if you may, that we are given the power and privilege to perform daily. That is to live our life, this moment, to the fullest of Christ as we can. I cannot do this through the vain imaginations of tomorrow, or the next great thing. I can only do this through the conscious effort of my own thoughts and actions on a moment by moment basis. I am not saying that we have to throw out every dream and goal. Oh the contrary. We are to dream all the more, because the ability is taken from our hands and placed into the hands of whom we are serving, slave like, yet sons and daughters to. We have to make the decision to handle THIS moment.
What am I getting ready for? I getting ready to finish the post and then get back to working on the worship for tomorrow night. How can I do that best? Not by worrying about tomorrow, not by stressing about who will be there or how it will go - nope. Simply by doing the absolute best with this moment that I can. Being in tune with God and executing at the moment I am living.
That is about it for today!
Love to All
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