God is a chef who is looking for people to be His Spirit-prompted ingredients. (Romans 8:14) He wants to bring Christians together to demonstrate His glorious presence and power. (1 Corinthians 2:4)

Be an interactive ingredient in the body of Christ, not just a cold vegetable passively chilling in a religious fridge. Humbly receive and surrender to God the Holy Spirit. Allow Him to continually direct and empower you (Acts 1:8) to testify about what He is saying and doing in your life. (Revelation 12:11)

One ingredient can’t make a delicious recipe. One persona alone can’t fully empower people to “taste and see that God is good.” However, when a group of Spirit-led Christians allows God to connect them heart-to-heart and mold them together in His presence as a living demonstration of the body of Christ, if unbelievers come in, ‘the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God exclaiming ‘God is really among you!'” (1 Corinthians 14:24-25)

A few songs and a one-man sermon aren’t God’s recipe for meetings in the body of Christ. The Bible says that when Christ-followers meet together, everyone has the opportunity to say something. (See 1 Corinthians 14:26) If you have been redeemed by the Lord, speak up and openly say so! Go beyond the Sunday morning wall of silent, frozen passivity.

Christ-followers,
When you meet
Let the Light
Of Christ shine
Through each person
Like sky blue holes
Of Heaven’s light
Breaking through
A forest
And reflecting
Off the trees.