Our church has been working through Henry Blackaby’s Experiencing God. Pastor Dan’s been preaching up a storm and our lifegroups have been using the workbook to dig deeper, to dive in, to apply it to our lives.
That sounds great on the surface, and usually works for me until Wednesday.
Wednesday is the 3rd day of each unit (as I do them) and that’s generally the day that Blackaby takes off the gloves and applies truth to my head with all the finesse of a 2×4. That’s the day that he drops things on me like this:
If you have an obedience problem, you have a love problem.
If you have difficulty hearing God speak then you are in danger at the root of your relationship with God.
And this week’s gem: What you do after God speaks tells more about what you believe about God than what you believe about yourself.
We got into some good discussion tonight around the fact that I see tons of good/God stuff happening at Calvary, yet there aren’t many people making initial decisions to follow Jesus. There could be a lot of reasons behind that:
*maybe most of the people in town are already believers, followers of Jesus who are looking to be discipled.
*perhaps we’re sharing the gospel with people and they aren’t responding in faith.
*it could be that we aren’t (read that I’m not) doing a good job of telling the best news in the world to people in my town who definitely need to know.
What I do after God speaks tells what I believe about God. If God has placed me in this town to be a leader, a spiritual influence, a bringer of good news, then why am I not more actively telling folks I meet about the God who loves them.
I can hear my friends back in GA…that ain’t right, y’all.
Something’s gotta change. I’m pretty sure it’s me.
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