I know a famous person who loves to warmly interact with all kinds of people from all over the world. He’s incredibly kind and compassionate and makes time for everybody. His name is Jesus.
Jesus interacts with people one to one and heart-to-heart. He gives them living water (John 4:10) that becomes an inner “spring of water welling up to eternal life,” (John 4:14) not dry religion. He makes radical disciples who daily follows and obey the risen Christ who lives within each one of them (Colossians 1:27) not just comfortable audience members who sit through a church service.
Oops! Christians have made Sunday morning audiences all over the world, but Jesus said to make disciples. (Matthew 28:19) It’s time to directly reconnect with the risen Jesus and His “rivers of living water” that freely flow from deep within His Spirit-led disciples. (John 7:38-39)
Institutional church trains Christians to be mere sermon spectators instead of powerful fruit of the Spirit cultivators. I’m not a good Christian spectator. It’s extremely difficult for me to passively sit and watch one man run and dominate a Sunday program when God’s fire is blazing in my heart.
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