Thursday, July 12, 2012

Fuge Update #4 - "Sleepwalking"

Ever known or even seen someone who sleepwalks?  Kind of a strange phenomenon...Someone is up and moving, eyes even open, but they're not really cognizant of everything that is happening around them.  It's as if their brain is on autopilot mode and they are just making their way through the tasks of life that they might complete in daily life.

"I could do that in my sleep!"

That's a phrase I often hear from teenage boys trying to puff up their chests in a sort of male-testosterone-ego-sharefest.  But the truth of the matter, and as we were challenged last night, you can't be a true disciple of Christ if you are sleepwalking in your faith.  If you are just going through the motions effortlessly and aimlessly, then you have clearly fallen asleep in your faith.  The truth of yesterday was that we PROCLAIM.  How are we proclaiming God's love story in the world around us?

Our speaker, Gary said this last night:
"God never calls us into relationship without radically calling or sending us out!"

Truth be known, most of our students (maybe even adults) in the church are bored in their faith.  Do you ever think the apostles were bored?  Do you ever think the disciples were looking for something to do because they were tired of the same old thing?

Put it like this - we should be sneezing the Gospel into the world.  We shouldn't be covering up our faith.  We should be sneezing out and hoping it sticks on people and they become infected with the love of God's story of pursuit - and ultimately his pursuit of us as his children.

Our youth are already making a difference in the community of St. Francisville.  They are serving at St. Vincent de Paul in Baton Rouge.  They are reaching marginalized teens in their school.  They are cleaning widows houses in our community.  They are seeking to be diverse.  They are seeking to PROCLAIM God's story.  I suppose if we as adults don't step out of our comfort zones, they will soon pass us by as they sprint toward Christ.

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