I'm having one of those weeks! Actually it's more like one of those months, I have to believe that I am doing what God wants of me because the world is certainly coming against me. And if I'm not doing this for Him then I must be crazy. Long story, short, I'm serving God within a godless community. I've seen it all too often! Mainline denominational churches becoming more like social clubs and country clubs than places where the word of God is proclaimed boldly and lives are being radically changed through righteousness and grace.
I praise God daily that the students I am in ministry with get it. How we must grieve the Father! Did he truly come to earth and die a hideous death so that we could take him for granted? Did he really eat with sinners and prostitutes so that we could wall ourselves up in buildings adorned with religiosity and look down our noses at those outside. What the heck? There are churches which lock the doors to their sanctuaries and chapels because they don't want people coming in and messing the place up, or worse yet stealing an altar cross or other vestment. There are pastors who deliberately water down their sermons so as not to offend anyone in their congregation because numbers in the pews seem to be more important than souls in the kingdom. Why? Dear God, forgive us! We have squandered and wasted your gifts. We have sullied and trampled your name. We have taken Your holy temple and turned it into a den of self-righteousness and irreverence. Help us to turn back Father before it is too late and we turn away yet another soul from you.
-Roman
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