Changing Christianity from a Sunday Lecture Series into Live Daily Demonstrations of the Presence of the Risen Jesus
View all responsesIf I could change one thing about modern society, I would change Christianity from a tradition-bound Sunday morning lecture series into live daily demonstrations of the presence of the resurrected Jesus Christ. I would change it from a religion into a lifestyle. That would change everything for the better!
Jesus wasn’t born to give the world another religion. He was born to continually live and work in in human hearts and through His inner presence empower people to live a Spirit-led lifestyle.
I’ve always grown a lot closer to the Lord by listening to the Holy Spirit speak in my heart than I have by listening to sermons. Try it for yourself. Be quite and listen to His still small voice.
There is so much more to Christianity than going to church! There’s so much more that we can do to grow as Christians.
We can listen to the risen Jesus speak in our heart and do what He tells us. We can read the Scriptures and let them burn in our heart like a love letter from God. We can meet together and spontaneously pour out our heart in adoration to Jesus. We can pray over each other. We can gather to obey the 50+ New Testament “one another” commandments. We can rejoice in the Lord together and we can weep with those who weep. We can tell each what God is saying to us and what He is doing in our life. We can look for hurting people, listen to them, and compassionately serve them. We daily can demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit with everyone we meet. We can love our enemies, pray for those who despitefully use us, and bless those who curse us.
Christians like to organize independent religious denominations, churches, and “ministries” that have no outside accountability (even though Jesus prayed that His entire body be united as one). Then they proclaim that those independent organizations and their leaders are the official religious authorities. That causes people to believe that they have to belong to one of the worldwide tens of thousands of them in order to have a relationship with Jesus. The Bible says that Christians need to meet together, but it doesn’t tell us to organize ourselves into an ever-increasing number of self-governing tribes, clans, and establishments.
“The Resurrected Christ”
When Christ in you
Is your hope of glory
Christianity is
More than a nice story
Or a moral allegory.
It is auditory.
You hear Jesus speaking
In your innermost being.
He starts working inside you
As His laboratory.
Christianity’s not
Just informatory.
It’s reformatory!
Are you letting Christ change you
From glory to glory
And daily make you new?
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