Let it be real

It's been far too long since I've said anything of consequence here on my blog. But that doesn't mean that nothing of consequence has been going on in my life. The LORD has been working in me quite a bit, showing me things that I think are important to my ministry. Here's mainly what he's been dealing with me about:

(1) We as a body of believers are not going to agree on everything. There are going to be doctrines within each church that some are going to think aren't as supported by Scripture as others are. And you know what? That's okay. So long as the irreducible minimums are met...that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on a cross for the sins of the world, that he rose again on the third day as foretold by the Scriptures, and that by grace alone through faith in Him alone, we are saved. So long as those conditions are met, the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit will convict and lead individual members of the body to what Scripture supports, even at different speeds for different members.

(2) We as a body have forgotten one very important element in our growth....we are at war with the powers of darkness. Especially in America, if not solely in America, we have so modernized the Gospel into this feel-good Sunday morning ritual that there is no room in our hearts or minds for God to work and do truly amazing things and for the powers and principalities to be cast out. In the East, demons are cast out, the sick are healed, and people who have never learned a foreign language suddenly speak a foreign dialect perfectly. In America, we have rallys to show how much we hate what the world has. Wow...whoopee. I think I heard it best by missionary I watched on tangle..."I have seen eight year old children die for their faith in Christ in the middle east....and you think you're radical because you wear a t-shirt." When are we going to be real about the battle around us?

The bickering and the lack of power in the modern-day church is what has led to many people leaving the faith and forsaking the body. But if we truly believed in what we say we do, and if we started living it out more, imagine what would happen here. The great revivals that spark up in the underground in India and China would happen here!!! Brothers and sisters, let us strike to that end!!! Let our faith be more than a tradition or a social network. Let it be real!!!!

Feel free to comment or ask questions. I'm always here.

Keep Soaring,

B