Distractions

Isn't it crazy how we can get so distracted from God? What is even crazier is that a lot of the times we think we are on the right track, but we can even get distracted by spiritual things. A worship song can distract us from Jesus. Especially for people who lead worship. A paper on a religious topic for school can distract us from the God who is allowing us to live so we can write this paper for school. Right now I'm writing this paper on the emergent church for one of my classes. It has to be pretty long, and I'm getting pretty stressed about it. It's a huge distraction for me because I need to realize that it is Jesus in me that is allowing me to live, to be at this school, and it is an honor to write this paper to learn more about this movement.

Right now, my church is doing a sermon series on how to kill a church. The Bible promises that the church will flourish, but he doesn't promise that every church building is going to survive and Noel, the pastor there has been giving every week a different thing that could potentially kill a church. The first week he talked about how our beliefs could kill a church. He talked about the importance of the resurrection, and how simply without it, none of us could believe what we believe. He talked about how the resurrection should be preached on all throughout the year, not just on Easter, and we should constantly be celebrating and acknowledging it. The next week he talked about how we can kill a church with our lives, and how we live it. He said that our lifestyles or a lot of times ones of hypocrites and of course, full of sin.

The next week he talked about how we can kill a church with our actions and with favoritism. I really liked this one because it is so true. There is so much of this in the church, and it is not biblical, and is not needed. Our actions should always be that of Christ's, and it's just not true. Today, Noel talked about how we can kill a church with our words. Hmm. Pretty interesting. I just heard someone swearing up a storm on campus. That breaks my heart. It breaks my heart to know there are lost people on this campus, and that people either don't notice or don't care. I wish I knew who this person was.

This campus needs prayer people. There is no doubt in my mind that revival is happening, but it needs to come onto this campus more and more everyday.

It's way to late to continue to think.
Love, Marc