There’s a voice crying out
In the wilderness of your heart:
“Behold the Lamb of God.
There’s more than routine religion.
Prepare the way of the Lord,
Make room for the risen Jesus.
Look. See. Surrender. Be free.
Experience God’s Spirit-led liberty!”

When Christians gather
To listen to God’s Spirit and hear
What Jesus has to say,
The things that they hear
Will align in an amazing way!

Christ-less Christianity that ignores the daily presence and reality of the risen Jesus lacks the power to heal human hearts. It leaves people as sheep without the Good Shepherd since it doesn’t teach them to hear and obey His voice.

We need Christ-listening Christianity. Jesus said: “My sheep hear My voice.” Let’s listen and obey. I’m amazed by how often when I listen to “Christ in you,” what I hear is confirmed by other Christ-listeners.

Christ-listeners “hear what the Spirit is saying.” Log on your heart to the voice of Jesus. “Do you hear what I hear?” If we humbly listen to God’s Spirit, what we hear will align with each other and with the Bible.

Christ-less Christianity sets people down to listen to words about Jesus, but it lacks the power to radically change lives. It encourages people to try to do better, but the risen Jesus changes and empowers people from deep within. Christ-followers are called to carry and demonstrate the actual presence of the living Jesus to the people we daily encounter.

A gathering of the body of Christ needs to be more than just a platform for a one-man presentation. It needs to be an environment that encourages, empowers, and trains people to receive and obey direct revelation and inner promptings from the living Jesus Christ. Ordinary people are eloquent when they speak as moved by Christ. Church should welcome them to the pulpit! (Rev. 12:11.)

The great challenge in life is to hear, follow, and obey the risen Jesus in the ordinary of daily life. Take the challenge! A Christ-less Christmas is empty; a Christ-less life is more so.