I really don't want this to come across as another cynical criticism of the church and its leaders or the members of the body. I just want it to be a way of thinking, a way of life, a voice that screams "Jesus, we need more Jesus!"
Where did Jesus Go?
I am finding and hearing more and more people long for more. We are bombarded with a culture that is “Me” driven and unfortunately this is over spilling into the church.
We have started coming to church looking for what the Church can do for us instead of what I can do to serve the church. (Read Philippians 2 if you don’t like what I just wrote)
I feel as thought preachers are being pressured to do more and come up with the new way of presenting the bible, but what’s funny is the bible has never changed. The bible has said the same words for thousands of years and they have always been life giving truths.
People want more new ways to view and receive the bible and what it says and yet it is clear that Jesus is “the way the truth and life”. Why are we pressuring our preaching pastors to try and find a new way to present what is such a message of truth and life…Jesus!
Jesus is and always will be the greatest story of truth in the bible. I guess my point is this we don’t need news ways of preaching we just need more Jesus Christ.
3 comments:
I agree friend, we do need more Jesus. I think the pressure for pastors to do more, the church to do more, and to present things better, or newer or whatever comes partially from reaping what we sow. We, as a Church, and as individuals, and even a society, have made the Bible and its truths something they are not. Taking them out of the hands of Jesus in a sense and making them our own and not allowing them to be the very word of God.
That's good bloggin'!
We're talking about that right now in Theology, how the Church today does not talk about Jesus.
Jesus, it has to be about Jesus.
Look at contemporary worship songs of today, very few even mention the name of Jesus, it's something that I'm starting to realize more and more everyday, that many pastors love to talk about what the congregation wants to hear to make them feel good about themselves... and start to ignore the example that Jesus has set for us all.
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