A CHURCH NOT FAILING ENOUGH
We have
all those promises from Jesus about our asking “anything” in his name and God
will give it. Can you imagine, a God like the God and Father of our lord Jesus
Christ and a Lord like the Lord Jesus assuring us that if we ask “anything” in
his name he will grant it?
And we,
taking him at his word, ask him for what?
We ask
advice on…what?
God has
given the kingdom to us, we have a new world before us, we have a gospel
entrusted to us that brings down castles of rebellion, that tears apart the
foundations of forts of evil imagination and despair and we ask for what? We
are taught to ask for what?
We’re
faced with a world God so loves, a world that’s in darkness and slavery and we
ceaselessly ask God to fine-tune our spirituality?
J.A.
Stewart said it didn’t trouble him much when he hears people say that the
Church is failing. What galls him is that it isn’t failing enough and for the
right reasons.
It
doesn’t engage or attempt to engage in cosmic-sized adventure so when it fails
it fails in trivial ways. It is a humble church with a lot to be humble about!
©2004 Jim McGuiggan. All materials are free to be copied and used as long as money is not being made.
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