I was listening to a Louie Giglio talk last night that someone had given to me. I had listened to it one other time several months ago but found my heart saying amen to everything he said as silent tears ran down my cheeks.
He talked about the fact the church ought to be one of the most "unsafe" places on the face of the earth. Not talking about being a lunatic or danger for the sake of danger, but that we as the church ought to be going out into the most unsafe places in the world.
He mentioned a quote from a 14 year old girl that had come in the form of a letter and it said. "Hi Louie, my name is Jessica (can't remember what her name was for sure but you get the point) and my friends and I have a band. We go into hell and we pull people out!"
We go into hell and we pull people out...what a tremendous description of our calling. Don't know if you've looked around lately but there are some places that are hell on earth. Chances are you won't have to look far to find one.
Wonder how long it's been since someone looked into your eyeballs and said...yep you march yourself right on in there to hell and you help pull them out. It'll be messy and there will be pain and at times you might fail...but it's still worth your effort.
Wonder if instead of sending our children to church and expecting them to come away with a safe faith that behaves well and to christian schools to attempt to keep them from becoming tainted by the world and to social circles where the "good" kids hang out...wonder if instead we begged God to grow them into crazy God lovers...to give them permission to get a little messy and try some things big enough that without God in them they will surely fail, I just wonder what that might do to a world full of hell on earth if we taught our children that our calling was to march into hell and help pull people out.
And don't even get me started on a church that might choose to start empowering people to be about that mission.
That's God's kingdom come to earth. May your kingdom reign Lord, start here please and please start now.
Blessings.
1 comment:
Thanks so much for your story! Yes---I agree...It would be wonderful if we were impowered as a group of believers to support and lift each other up while we are in HELL trying to pull others out of it. I think we as believers are lacking that "true church" to feel the support and also we are lacking in the inital faith in knowing HIS power to actually SAVE the lost. He has called US to reach out and go into hell and seek His lost people. We just have to stay focused and not let the world or "church" get in the way! Love your heart!
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