Through Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life set us free from the law of sin and death! Romans 8:2

Be a risk taker. Be authentic. Be in the world and bring transformation. Don’t do the “safe” thing. 

You cannot avoid risk.  Living is risky.  Loving is a risky.  Life is risky, life is terminal. Death is the ultimate statistic. One out of one, we all die.  There should be nothing risk averse to a Christian life. We have nothing to fear. It is for freedom that Christ set us free. We don’t get through life safely just to fall into death safely. We beg God for signs and miracles. There’s no need in our safe little world where God needs to do a miracle. Let’s walk across the street to the place where God is allowed to perform miracles. There is a world of people around us who are enslaved. On our watch, as we sit in our safe little Churches with walls built up to keep us safe, there are over 27 million slaves struggling to survive. ON OUR WATCH. What are we doing? Where is the salt? Where is the light? Where is the justice? 

Are we afraid of those people on the outside interrupting our little safe worlds. What do we have to fear? What can man do to us? Church has confused compassion with emotion.  I don’t care if you can cry during the motivational story. Get out, roll your sleeves up and lets get to work. 

We have not been created a product of time but of eternity.  The life we are living right now is not practice. It’s the real thing. It’s the only life you have to live on this earth.  How are you making a difference? How are you effecting the eternity? Are you planting seeds? Are you willing to put your life on the line for one more person to find Christ? Are you willing to give it all? HE did. He gave it all.  

We separate ourselves from the world under the “Be in the world but not of it.” How do you translate that? We view ourselves as “holy” “set apart” because we don’t slap our bodies with tattoos and piercings. (well, maybe you don’t J) But our gossip track and rumor mill is running full throttle.  We are hurting people left and right but somehow we have found an excuse for our actions.  We have flip this scripture upside down and become apart of the world but its “ok” because we aren’t living in it. Oooops. That’s no good. 

I don’t want to be apart of this world. But I know that I have been sent into this world to be a life witness of the Holy Father.  I have been set apart and I have been created to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ.  I have been redeemed and created brand new and I am being sent to bring this freedom and redemption to others. 

Through Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life set us free from the law of sin and death! Romans 8:2 BAM.