WHERE IS THE CHURCH?

What are we doing? Have we got so busy in creating boundaries in teaching and doctrine and forgotten to live? What happened to us? Where did we fall? Is it possible that we can return to the place we fell and rise up again?  Have we become so knowledgable that we choose to ignore the power of the triune God and His ability to give life to the his word. What are we doing trying to help Him. What if we just obeyed? What if we just followed? I know we want to make sure it is safe and we shall not be hurt. We want to make sure that this journey will have a happy ending and be a happy one. But is that what the gospel is all about? Did He not promise hardship, sacrifice, pain and yet joy that passes understanding? Why are hearts not changing? I don't men those outside the church? I am concerned about us as a body the rest will come if we live for who we TRUELY are.  Should the gospel massage not have the power to change me and you? Should the gospel massage not have life? Why are we neither hot or cold? How will the world know that we are true followers if we don't love each other and those less privileged? How will the world see a difference if we don't live different? Why do we love to fit in? We are not called to merely fit in but to be representatives of the most high.

What happened to our identity? Who blurred the church? What identifies you? Is it your job, marriage, children or academics? Why not God? What do you describe as true success? What do you want to be remembered for when you die? And finally before the throne of God what will you say you lived for? Someone has to ask these questions and I will.

Millions of people are living daily in slavery and poverty today and are wondering where God is or if he hears them. Gary Haugen  (CEO IJM) asks the question of where are the people of God not where is God. I have the same question.  What happened to right and wrong? Why is there no moral clarity today? 

Scott C Todd ( founder of Isaiah 58) says that the end of extreme poverty is possible when the church rises up and begins to be the church. But what are we doing? Opening one organization after another and evading running away from abiding in God so he can change us. What if the church lived? What if the church could rise up in this generation? What if there was true brokenness and less self protection. What of we totally obeyed? 

So what are we doing, where is Love for the things that break God's heart? Are we just going to play church and go through the motions and sing the songs of "break my heart for what breaks yours" but close our hearts to pain and protect ourselves? What are we doing? Who are we?

We have to wake up and ask these questions.

I have seen hard things in this world at my young age told people some of these things but their hearts are so numb to compassion and moral clarity. Everyone protecting their own and few ready to be broken by God. I know it is scary, I get scared to sometimes when I have to follow God. But how long is the body of Christ going to behave like grasshoppers. When shall we see ourselves for the great army that we are? We have to make sacrifices, great sacrifices at that. It may mean to abandon your comfort, your luxury. "You begin to live  and bear fruit when you die." Dr. Thrasher ( prof at Moody Theological seminary for 32 years).

We have to start somewhere church. What shall we say about all this before the throne room? That I    was scared of criticism? Or that I couldn't speak or write? Or shall we say that we were so busy      taking care of family and loving those close to us " Family should be a mission force and not an idol." Dr.Thrasher. Are we making our hearts to small to accommodate only those we see each day at our dinning tables and forgetting those crying out to God? Mark 3:31-35 Then Jesus' mother and brothers came. They stood outside and sent a person in   

to tell Jesus to come out. Many people were sitting around Jesus. They said to him, "Your mother and brothers are waiting for you outside." Jesus asked, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" Then Jesus looked at those people sitting around him. He said, "These people are my mother and my 

brothers! My true brother and sister and mother are those people that do the things God wants." 

Church, it's our time. Are we so blind that we cannot see and too deaf to hear the call? Look at the numbers that gathered in 2013 passion conference, look at the numbers with IJM, Compassion International and Isaiah 58 to mention but a few. All these cried out to us as a body of Christ. The question is where is the church and the solution is the church.

We have to start some where. The hope is that there are remnants. Those that have not defiled their eyes or ears. Those that God has kept for Himself since birth. Those he talks about in Rom 8, Jeremiah 1:5, Deut. 14:2 and Jeremiah 29:11, John 15:16, God has never left creation with no witness and he is not about to. 

So arise or you army of The Lord and die so you can live for the purpose to which you have been called. Begin to shine for The Lord has heard the cry of those in need and slavery and he is waiting for you to go. He is waiting for you, don't think that you are waiting for Him. You are busy trying to let go and dye. Make up your mind and get to work for the mater is waiting. 

Yes church you can do it, you just need to believe, trust His heart and let go of what you are holding on to. It all comes down to trust and belief. Hebrews 11. 

For slavery and poverty to end in this generation. It has to all start in the church returning to God in total surrender. Many have spoken and showed videos and documentaries but the church is in deep sleep. Someone has to shake the boat and wake us up that our bones will burn like Jeremiah's. that we shall stop living for less and criticism and begin to live. 

I think