I find myself thinking constantly about what it will take for the life of Christ to reign supreme in this day. Just now I put down the Tulsa World after reading of Christians in Nigeria--including the Church of Christ--being gunned down by Islamic terrorists.
Praise God for the believers' faith! May He be glorified under such extreme slainery.
We are called to believe big. May we do so. May we do so at no regard for earth-life; but with great assessment of the value of the spirit life.
Church just isn't about striping parking lots or music preference. The more we nudge up against terroristic darkness, the more we will note the purpose of an intense faith.
We are called to live for Him by dying to ourselves. For me this takes an evident combination of practice and repeated failure. Yet the call from Jesus' voice remains clear. If we are to impact a struggling world, we will pay big prices.
The day is surely subtle; yet raw threat inches closer when it will no longer be theory but reality. For those in Nigeria...it already came.
May the sobriety of following Jesus occupy our minds a bit more day by day.
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