Half-Heart Followers

I'm beginning to hate the church and some of the stuff it has come to stand for, in the early church the people that were the best at something were the ones that took care of that need in the church. Example, the apostle were having to hand out food among the people, but they also needed to preach. They were the best at preaching and felt it there responsibility to do that.

But todays church has become a half-hearted, mediocre, attempt to serve our God, and even that may be giving it to much credit. This isn't a game it's a serious thing and just sliding by is not going to cut it anymore, I really don't think it ever did cut it we just tricked ourselves into believing that it's okay to 50% our way through life, and to God.

I'm tired of hearing the same things from the same people, and seeing the same blank stares on the same blank faces, it's time for a change, and if the church refuse to change I'm going to have to. I think I need to move to try something else somewhere else. But, I'm afraid that it's going to be the same thing everywhere I go which would confirm my fear that all christian are now pathological liars and have fallen into the snare that "making it" is how it's supposed to be. IT'S NOT IT'S NOT IT'S NOT. Open your eyes you blinded people and see that your holding so hard onto the good things that you can't reach out and grab the best things. The things that God intend for us to have.

If you've seen one of the newer Nooma videos, Shells, Rob Bell is talking about how they were at the beach, and his son had all these little broken shells, that in themselves were good things, but then his son saw a starfish out in the water. He would swim out to the starfish and then come back, and Rob would say that starfish is yours go get, and he would come back and finally he came back and Rob Bell was like why can't you get the starfish and his son said, because my hands are filled with shells. He ends by saying " May you set down the good things, so that you can grab hold of the best things". That is what I want for my church and for todays church. We are doing so many good things, but those things are causing us to not be able to put forth our best effort on the big things, on the BEST things. We need to drop the shells, and go get our starfish.