Who is more righteous? The man who pastors a church of 45,000 and makes $100,000 a year or the man who sells everything to go to Africa and share the good news with lost people? The answer is actually neither. Both are fulfilling god’s calling on their life. Even in the life of Jesus we see that he attended church services, but that was not the end of His faith. He was not content to just get up early every Sunday and attend a service. He went out to the world to share His love! If we are truly Christ followers than why do we constantly find ourselves imitating only half way? What is holding us down? What is the point of learning and growing in countless church services and never applying? Do we always have to act so civilized and have nice little meetings in neat little buildings? Why is our love for god not overflowing into the streets? in acts, the church is shown as it was meant to be. it was not a building that opened its door from 8:30 to 12:30 every Sunday morning. It was a group of radicals who were so overcome by love that they could not stand to hide it. They shared everything they had and only took what they needed.
After getting his behind whooped for several hundred years, Satan developed a new strategy. His plan is no longer to tear down every church in the world, but rather to make the people inside them complacent. If he can keep the people happy in their Sunday morning faith, he has successfully got the upper hand. If he can keep us as sayers of the word and not doers, he has rendered us useless for advancing the kingdom of God.
Once again, there is nothing wrong with someone who feels called to be a preacher; they are living out God’s calling in their life. They pour out what God has shared with them every week, but far too often it stops there. What percent of people can say that they take what they learn and apply it every day of their lives? God did not commission us to become spiritually obese; he called us to share His love and to make disciples of all nations. He didn’t even call us to oober Christianity and a perfectly sinless life lived in a cave. There is no possible way we can grow close to god without sharing what he has done. It just doesn’t make sense to hold the secret to escaping eternal damnation and keep it a secret. Can we really love Him and not be so obsessed that we don’t share His love with every person we come in contact with? Now that you have read this, I pray that you have a better idea of whether you are a simply Christian or a Christ imitator. I will end with Matthew 28:18-20
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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