As I ate lunch today a thought hit me. It wasn't an original thought, and it wasn't something that I haven't thought before. But it was more of a sequence of thoughts that have never come to me quite like this.
While eating, I realized that I had not thanked God for providing my food. And the same God who provided me with my lunch:
A rare form of amnesia is to blame for a man's loss of memory in Seattle who walked out of a public park three weeks ago with $600 stuffed in his sock and could not remember who he was. Though he is now able to recall a few details of his past, words like "lonely, frightening, overwhelming" have described his experience.
For many people in our churches today, their whole church life can be compared to a wedding rehearsal. They have learned to say the right things, act the right ways, and dress the part. But at the end of the day, it's only been a rehearsal without a life commitment. Their life has not been changed by Jesus.
In our previous blog, we looked at a group of people who have been given just enough religion throughout their lifetime to keep them from the real thing - a personal, life-changing relationship with Jesus. We call this group the religious lost. And the question we are asking is "What can we do to reach them?" Allow me to speak to this from a couple of different perspectives.
First, as friends of the religious lost, we must continue to pray for the true salvation of those around us who are not bearing fruit. And remember that when you commit to laser-focused prayer for the lost, you are joining the greatest prayer partner of all time - Jesus Christ (see John 17:20 ).
One of my favorite commercials of all time is the old Wendy's restaurant commercial. As an elderly lady receives her order in the drive-through at a competing restaurant, she looks at the burger and asks with disgust and sarcasm, "Where's the beef?" In today's world, many people are still asking "Where's the beef?" Except they're asking it in a little different way. They are asking "Where's the evidence?" And they aren't referring to a burger. They're referring to the Church.
As I ate lunch today a thought hit me. It wasn't an original thought, and it wasn't something that I haven't thought before. But it was more of a sequence of thoughts that have never come to me quite like this.
A rare form of amnesia is to blame for a man's loss of memory in Seattle who walked out of a public park three weeks ago with $600 stuffed in his sock and could not remember who he was. Though he is now able to recall a few details of his past, words like "lonely, frightening, overwhelming" have described his experience.
For many people in our churches today, their whole church life can be compared to a wedding rehearsal. They have learned to say the right things, act the right ways, and dress the part. But at the end of the day, it's only been a rehearsal without a life commitment. Their life has not been changed by Jesus.
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One of my favorite commercials of all time is the old Wendy's restaurant commercial. As an elderly lady receives her order in the drive-through at a competing restaurant, she looks at the burger and asks with disgust and sarcasm, "Where's the beef?" In today's world, many people are still asking "Where's the beef?" Except they're asking it in a little different way. They are asking "Where's the evidence?" And they aren't referring to a burger. They're referring to the Church.
