Passion

This Sunday I shared a message about God's love for us. He is over the top, universally, and supernaturally in love with people. His love is greater than the love of your mother or your father for you! Jesus loves you!

To hear the message click here.

Now, if God has this much passion for people, we should too!

If God loves people who reject, hurt, offend, and make fun of him why can't we? It is hard to forget hurts, but if we have the the Lord Jesus Christ living in us (you know, the guy that said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.") then we have the power, authority, and ethical mandate to forgive.

I just watched Ellen Degeneres make a tearful and passionate plea for a dog to be returned to two children. Wouldn't it be great if Christians made their plea to the world with that much raw passion? Instead, we think we have to have the right lighting, music, program, a stoic and logical presentation, and never admit our mistakes, whatever. We just need to believe in the Lord so much that we would be a fool for him and the people he loves so deeply.

In the last few days the Lord has been pressing me to pray for two tings. First, that Christians would stop just attending church and start allowing God to transform their lives. Second, that the Church, our church, would go out and find the lost and compel them to come to Jesus Christ. We know that when they find him they will find him filled with love.