When Love Takes You In

This is one of those videos that reminds me why I am here on the earth.... to make the glory and salvation of Christ known here and throughout the world. Steven does an amazing job with the song.

I grow weary of the church culture that I have seemingly experienced throughout my church trek since becoming a Christian. I have found behind the mask such a hollow facade; an empty people for the most part. I must say that I was deceived; I thought the bubble we call 'church' (at least in the context I know.... this is not the trend I see everywhere like China or Brazil and some places in North America) was right.....healthy.....biblical. And like the people I am frustrated with, I have only recently been enlightened to that fact that until the last year or so that my walk with Christ has been seemingly stagnant. Well, I have be growing, but I am saddened to think that I have been getting it wrong for soooo long. Praise be to God that He sent someone to show me. For I have longed for such guidance and He has heard my prayer.

I suppose that my turning point was going on the mission trip to Brazil. God took many months to lead me to the place where I would go.... I am so thankful that He did. My life has not been the same, nor should it ever be the same again. God changed me to see that I am deceived if I think that going to church on Sunday morning, yet leaving unchanged without experiencing God, without having a mission. I long to work alongside a Biblical faith family in which we are making Christ know and love each other. A place where people get Biblical Christianity I am sooo tired of a people (being mindful that I once through down with these people):

1. Who so are engrossed in religious formalism that they forget about the people across the road who will die and go to hell if they don't go and tell them.
   
2. Who give a tip of there hat to world missions and continue to develop programs that revolve incessantly around them.
3. Who should be on the firing line for God, but are still in the nurseries of their church drinking spiritual milk.
4. ........And I could go on, but to what end.

Perhaps the time as come to begin to lead the change. To go from having an amazing Sunday school lesson to pouring my life into students. Actually, teaching students to live the things we talk about. From doing ministry to keep the machinery of an institution running, to doing it because God has called His people to be the light of the world. Being real.... you know what I mean?

This video reminds me of the over 1 billion people who don't know Jesus. Many of whom have never heard of Jesus. I exist because of the grace and love Christ has poured out on me. How can I not in turn pour that back out on the world that needs Him. I exist to make the glory and salvation of Christ know here and around the world.