The reason I started this blog was to use as an accountability tool to make sure that I kept thinking and developing thoughts. Sometimes Monday morning comes and I have no idea what to write about, today was one of those days. One of the teens I work with texted me a couple weeks ago about wanting to talk through some stuff she's trying to figure out. Actually she asked for prayer about it and I told her we'd talk about it soon. We still haven't talked, but to prep me for the conversation she sent me a song to listen to, "More like Falling in Love" by Jason Gray.
Last night I was talking with one of my Proverbs 18.24 brothers about a sermon he's writing on James 4.11-12, he talks about something Mark Driscoll said about Joel Osteen and Rob Bell. That started us on a conversation about the sermon and the idea of judging vs. holding someone accountable.
I look at the sermon I'm trying to work on for April 11, the Religious or Relational one I've preached several times, and basically my hope for the church, and it all focuses on that idea of genuine Christianity, not being blinded by the religious rituals and rule, but just captivated by the love of a the King of kings.
So this song, "More like Falling in Love"
Give me rules, I will break them. Show me lines, I will cross them. I need more than a truth to believe, I need a truth that lives, moves, and breaths, to sweep me off my feet. It's gotta be
More like falling in love, than something to believe in.
More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance.
Caught up, called out, come take a look at me now.
It's like I'm falling, oh, it's like I'm falling in love.
Give me words, I'll misuse them, obligations, I'll misplace them. 'Cause all religion ever made of me was just a sinner with a stone tied to my feet. It never set me free. It's gotta be
More like falling in love, than something to believe in.
More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance.
Caught up, called out, come take a look at me now.
It's like I'm falling, oh, it's like I'm falling in love, love, love
Deeper and deeper, it was love that made me a believer in more than a name, a faith, a creed. Falling in love with Jesus brought the change in me.
More like falling in love, than something to believe in.
More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance.
Caught up, called out, come take a look at me now.
It's like I'm falling, oh, it's like I'm falling in love.
I keep just hitting replay on youtube. I think about that, it's gotta be more like falling in love. It's all about a relationship. I hear people talk about politics, and this doesn't have any thing to do with health care, but the government can't fix anything. Making something legal or illegal doesn't make someone do or not do it, it's the mindset the person has. The song says it, "Give me rules, I will break them" but it also says "falling in love with Jesus brought the change in me."
If the church would be the church it was called to be we would have no need of politics. If Christians would live the life they claim to be a part of the world would be a better place.
I make it sound so simple, and honestly, I think it is that simple. God knew what he was doing, and if we would simply be who he calls us to be things would be so much better. If we stopped focusing on the rules that simply show us how messed up we are and simply fall in love with the best friend any of us could ever ask for, things would be so much better. I'm not saying that we'll have no problems, Jesus tells us we will, but if this idea of genuine Christianity caught on, what would happen in our lives? In our families? In our churches? In our cities? In our nation? In our world?
"It's gotta be more like falling in love, than something to believe in. More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance. Caught up, called out, come take a look at me now. It's like I'm falling, oh, it's like I'm falling in love."
Peace be with you
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