What’s Your Sermon?
on Jun 29 in Art and Media, Everyday Life, Faith, LeadershipEveryone has a sermon.¬† And everyone’s sermon changes and morphs during the seasons of their lives.
Your sermon is that single message that seems to just leak out of you, whether you want it to or not.¬† It’s what you would whisper on your death bed, if your death bed was now.
For the past four years (give or take a few months), my sermon has been this:¬† The Kingdom of God is not something back then, for those people, over there.¬† It’s for us, right now, to be lived through and through.¬† And it will be entirely counter-intuitive to everything we think. In other words, my life won’t make sense.
My sermon isn’t right or wrong.¬† But it’s the message I would die for.¬† And it’s the message I’m living for.
Why is this so important?¬† It’s important because, if we don’t know what our sermon is, then it will become increasingly difficult to live for anything at all.¬† And every one of us needs to be living for a higher purpose, with a higher calling than simply “survival”.
So what about you?¬† What’s your sermon?¬† What’s your death bed encouragement to those around you?¬† Go ahead.¬† Put it into words.¬† Throw down something on paper, or in your journal, or below as a post.
Make this more than a pleasant read.¬† Make it something that helps you define the path you’re on.
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Mine would be this, Christianity is not a religion it’s a relationship. I get the priveledge of a relationship with the Almighty, not because of who I am but because of who He is. Since God is for me who can be against me.
Mine would be that the life God has called us to is a radical adventure, and that the call of Christ is to give everything, to lose your life in the service of God and other people, because that is where you find it. The call is not to safety and measured responses and “balanced” lives, but to reckless abandon, where in each situation, we do the crazy thing Jesus would do.
Mine would be this:
It’s near the end and it’s time to get real. Apostates are apparent and they can’t be ignored. Names should and will be called out and the Word of God must be defended. 2Timothy is not (as Gary would say) for “back then.” Liars and dirty men drag God’s name through the mud for personal gain. They might even be in your pulpit. People need to stop complaining about getting their feelings hurt, especially if they’re men. This mentality can go to far and be hurtful, but we’ve been wussy’s (wanted to say something else but held back) for so long that it wouldn’t hurt to stand up stronger for once. I’m not talking about “unbelievers”. It’s apparent in the bible that we should expect them to act as they do. But rather I’m speaking of believers. Those with no excuse. Those who are held to a much higher standard. Matthew 7:1 is the most misquoted text on earth. People yell “Don’t judge!” But God demands the opposite. We are to protect his bride with all our war defending the spiritual assault of “tolerance” “false unity” and “anti-confrontation”. It’s time to stop standing idly and watch our children be raped. (if we could visualize in our terms what is happening spiritually, that’s what it would look like: RAPE). I understand that I fall into this category: the believer who needs to hear the truth. That’s why my closest friends, including my wife are truth tellers. Each time they confront, it stings, but without it, I would lead all of them straight to Hell.
Then again, I’m not really sure what my sermon would be. Not really passionate about it.