Is The Church, Really The Church of Jesus Christ?

You hear a lot of stuff happening on the news and elsewhere nowadays. People are fatter than they were 10 years ago, The gallon of Gasoline is absurd, Israel and Hezbollah are having a free for all with each other, the Iraq conflict is continuing on and on and on with no end in sight, hurricanes threaten Gulf of Mexico oil supplies, sex offenders maraud the landscape and so forth. But what really are the biggest problems we face today?

I really believe the biggest problem we face today is not Hiv/Aids, Prostitution, Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, Immorality, Depression, Poverty, Illiteracy, Corruption, Terrorism, Pornography but I really think the biggest problem we face today is our church. But now I am not talking about the Church of Jesus Christ, but I am talking about the church that men have created in this century. What does the world see of the church, the visible church? What is the extent of your church’s witness, visibility, and influence in the public’s eye? I have heard it said that we (as believers) gather together on Sundays to get equipped/energized so that we can then go out into the world to be a witness for Christ. And I agree with that. But, so often, once we depart from being together with our brothers and sisters within the confines of the four walls of the church building, we become soloists.

Through our actions in a globalised world, we are inescapably connected with and responsible for the fate of countless others, whether we like it or not. I don’t know what you think is the biggest problem we face nowadays, but for me I really believe we as the Church of Jesus Christ need to wake up and be Jesus in this dying and decaying world. We need to stand up for life, freedom, for the oppressed, for the sick, for the poor, prostitutes, drug addicts, etc. We need to stop being just one more problem in the world and we need to start being a solution. We need to make a difference in this world as a Church, We have a Giant inside of us and that Giant is the Holy Spirit(Jesus Christ) and we can do all things through Christ who strengths us. We have the power and the love of Jesus to embrace a homeless, widow, Gangster, sick person and we one more time can change this world. We are world changers, we are history makers, we are blessed by Jesus, We are anointed by Jesus, We are redeemed through Jesus, We are warriors, We are Kingdom Fighters, We are agent of restoration in the name of Jesus.

We gotta stop looking into ourselves and we need to start caring about the millions of people dying and living because of starvation. We need to stop worrying about growing the number of people in our church and we need to start looking at people as an individual who needs Jesus. We need to stop spending millions of dollars in improving the carperts, TV sets, Sound System and we need to start spending more money on taking the Gospel into the whole world. There are millions of people that will die without hope and knowing Jesus as their savior if we keep being content with the way we do "church". Common, Somebody? We need to change our mentality and we need really to become the Church of Jesus Christ. The world is waiting and Jesus is also waiting for us to really surrender and say "Lord, we as the body of Jesus Christ want and will change our family, community, city, nation and world with your love and mercy." Amen!!!