This is some thought taken out of my journal from last year. These are very random, not very subtle and sporadic. The way I love it. This is Radical Christianity…
What is uncompromising Radical Christianity? What causes you to pursue this passionate love for Jesus? What is it that awakens you? What moves you?
Jesus was never shaken by man, He never compromised His mission. He was ever present in the Father’s face. Was He uncomfortable? I believe that sometimes He was. Did it always move something in heaven and produce uncommon results? Absolutely! Why do we believe that we cannot get in God’s face? Why do we think that all things of heaven are produced by our work or our doing?
There should be something inside us that longs for God. There should be something so awakened inside of us that nothing else matters, but a passionate pursuit of a Man that changed the world. A desire to move the Kingdom in such a way that would change the world…forever eternity. A burning church needs burning men and women to shake the gates of hell. No compromise. An awakening within our hearts, that is pure and undefiled.
What moves you? Is it material things? Do you put first things first? Is God really first in your life? Is it evident? God has never intended for our relationship with Him to be comfortable. If you are, you’re probably not pursuing Him wholeheartedly. Stop reading this. Take a moment to check your heart and see if God really is first in your life. Do this first before all things. Go ahead, take this moment. Once you choose to allow Him first in your life, the comfort zone will no longer exist in your daily routine. This is my warning to you. If you are sincere and do this, your life will absolutely in no way ever be the same, I promise you.
What is Radical Christianity? Many people in church have prettied this phrase up. They have come up with their own formula for success in the church. Again, give me a burning man and I will show you a burning church. Show me a heart that burns and sparks other hearts and I will show you Radical Christianity. There is no magical formula, there is no scripture memorizing method. It starts with a pursuit. The pursuit of your life. Burning for God is creating your heart as His altar. Where you sacrifice your life to be in His presence, things begin to change inside of you. This will make you uncomfortable. This is good. This is radical.
Radical is not normal. Jesus was not normal. He was as far from normal as oil to water. Why does the church water-down Christianity? What authorizes us to do this? As I began to pray and seek God about these questions, I began to realize that we forgot the five “W’s” of church. Who; Jesus, What; Church (Ekklesia), Where; Cross, When; Now, How; Radically Uncompromised. Damon Thompson once said Jesus didn’t die halfway for you, so why do you get to live halfway for Him? This is where it starts, Jesus and Him crucified. This is the center of spiritual formation. This is what drives us. If we live halfway for Him, how is that radical? What’s radical is determining in your life that you will choose to live no other way and challenge those around you to do the same. Jesus. Period. No exceptions, no compromise. We don’t get right on Sunday and live the other six days holding hands with satan and call that church. This is not the church in which Christ is the center of. It starts with us and our lifestyle. Do you have a pure and holy lifestyle? I warned you this was gonna be hard.
In our bible study last night we talked about what it would be like standing before God and His judgement. Let’s face it, we will ALL be judged. As He begins to play your life on the movie screen, we get to the point we are at now. Decision. What will play next? Will it be the right choice, which is living for yourself and be normal? Or, be abnormal and have a radical abandonment toward God and be used to change the world? This is radical. Christ set the standard of living radical 2000 years ago; let’s get it back, it starts with you…and it starts now.
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