Tonight was Revolution Church’s Easter Egg hunt. It was absolutely amazing. I have never seen a more perfect picture of Jesus’ love. Anyone that you could imagine was there. I feel blessed that I was able to be apart of it. I was talking with my pastor after it was over about how amazed I was by it all. We started to talk about how Gastonia is really getting shook up in a way that it hasn’t been done before.
Our church body is not about conformity or being comfortable. It is about challenges and being uncomfortable. I was reading in Luke 23 tonight and came across what was being said about Jesus right before he was crucified.
Luke 23 (the message)
1-2Then they all took Jesus to Pilate and began to bring up charges against him. They said, “We found this man undermining our law and order, forbidding taxes to be paid to Caesar, setting himself up as Messiah-King.” 3Pilate asked him, “Is this true that you’re ‘King of the Jews’?” “Those are your words, not mine,” Jesus replied. 4Pilate told the high priests and the accompanying crowd, “I find nothing wrong here. He seems harmless enough to me.”
5But they were vehement. “He’s stirring up unrest among the people with his teaching, disturbing the peace everywhere, starting in Galilee and now all through Judea. He’s a dangerous man, endangering the peace.” http://ifoundme45.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
That is what they were saying about Jesus. Jesus went in and made a scene. He stood up for what he believed. He did not conform. He did not get comfortable. He did not wear dress pants and a tie to church. He was not a hypocrite.
So where in the world did people get the idea that it was ok to go to church with the same people Sunday and Wednesday and never reach out to the lost and the broken? Christianity is not just for Christians, so stop acting like it is.
