We Are The Church (Red Week #1)

 

On the back of a highly successful and inspiring Red Sunday a couple days back, in the week to come we will be launching our first ever Red Week where we seek to flesh out our continuing journey in learning how the church really can be the church. We believe that Jesus is in a sense auditing the very core of those who call this local church community home at the moment and we are trusting for the things we profess with our lips to match up with the actions and motives of our hearts.

The ease in which it is to just slip into playing church is a scary reality for us and we are beginning to take our identity as the real deal very seriously.

 

We ARE the church. 

 

If we don't step up to the plate in our community, someone else (or something else) will. There is just no such thing as a spiritual vaccuum. We've been given authority, but if we don't exercise it the powers and principalities of darkness will take up that mantle very quickly.

 

So the burning question is how does the church operate in her rightful authority?

 

Is it "storming heavens gates" with all night prayer vigils?

Is it binding and loosing excessively until our voices are hoarse and our frown lines are permanent?

Is it picketing and marching against the major wrongs and evils prevalent in our society?

 

Maybe.

 

But just maybe true authority is exercised in the way a man named Jesus did it.

 

"If you want to be the greatest, serve"

 

A life of laying down his rights and any judgemental lenses didn't make him any weaker. Christ showed his strength and divine power through servanthood and the greatest moment of authority and dismantling of spiritual strongholds was when his feet couldn't march, when his hands couldn't hold a picketing sign and where his voice could do nothing but cry out in desperation to his father.

 

As Rory Dyer recently said,

"Until we feel the depths of our city's pain, we will not see the depths of His power"