The kids started back to school today, so I can pick up my writing blog again. Summer was busy with teaching swim lessons and trips to the beach and just spending precious time with my family.
A friend sent me this video and I really love it! Religion seems to put God in a box. It compartmentalizes our life and separates our spiritual lives from our secular lives. We are not just disciples on Sundays, but 24/7. Christ is our life. Jesus didn't come to just bring us another religion. Christianity is a relationship with Christ, God making himself known to man so we can commune with him like we were originally created to do. God didn't just throw us into a broken world and abandon us. He wants to walk with us and talk with us; he wants to guide us and to bind our wounds. He wants to give us life to the full.(Jn. 10:10) In Genesis, we see Adam and Eve taking their daily walks in the garden with God, before they took the bite of forbidden fruit that broke creation. I believe God wants that kind of relationship with his children today. As we walk with him and seek to know him, he will make himself known to us more and more. We will discover how deeply loved we are and be compelled to spread that love to others.
One of my favorite parts of this video is where it shows "regular people"... a chef, a doctor, a child, a mom, a construction worker... then it writes down the front of each one... teacher, pastor, apostle, prophet, evangelist. These are regular people God has gifted; who says it has to be robed clergy in an organized religious institutional setting. Why can't God gift the cashier at the grocery store to be one of his teachers as well... or the Wal-mart greeter to be a pastor... or the traveling salesman to be an evangelist? It is God who gifts/equips/appoints people to these roles. We, the church, the believers who are scattered like salt throughout the earth, will recognize these gifts in people when we come along side each other and as we love and spur one another on. When we stop limiting God by putting him in a box, and remember that he does not dwell in a temple made by human hands, but in the hearts of men, maybe we'll begin to recognize all the ways he's continually making himself known in our ordinary every day lives.
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