We live in a fast paced culture.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Nobody likes to wait for anything.\u00a0 We want everything now.\u00a0 We hate red lights and long lines and people who show up late.\u00a0 I’ve seen people lose it because they had to wait 5 minutes to get their fast food.\u00a0 Just the other day I was at a stoplight, and across the intersection was a guy whose car had stopped running.\u00a0 I could hear his starter kick in over and over as he tried to get his engine started again.\u00a0 And when the light turned green, the guy behind him laid on the horn–several times. We love to be able to fast forward through the commercials.\u00a0 We live faced paced lives.<\/p>\n
But I’ve noticed that a lot of people who get involved with churches or pray some little prayer that’s supposed to magically change them into Christians are more than happy to wait.\u00a0 Oh, they still want the sermons to be over fast so they can get back to more fast paced life.\u00a0 But when it comes to making the world a better place, they don’t mind at all just to wait…to wait for Jesus to come back to fix things, to wait till they die to change their lives, to wait for somebody else to do something so they won’t have to.<\/p>\n
So is that right?\u00a0 Is that the way it ought to be?\u00a0 Does God just want people to go to a church, sing a few songs, pray a few prayers and then sit around and wait?\u00a0 The Bible seems pretty clear about how people who claim to follow him ought to be impacting and affecting the world around them.\u00a0 Jesus talked all the time about helping the poor and the widows and orphans and prisoners and foreigners.\u00a0 He was very clear that we’re supposed to stand up for justice and teach people to obey his commandments.\u00a0 So then why do so many people who call themselves Christians seem to be waiting?<\/p>\n
By the way, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n
PS. I mention a visual aid in part of this talk that might be a little difficult to see in the audio recording.\u00a0 So for anybody curious about that.\u00a0 I tied off a big roll of string and began to unwind it across the room.\u00a0 A little way out, I used a marker to mark a tiny spot on the string.\u00a0 Then I kept unwinding it all around the room.\u00a0 I’d go all the way to one wall, wrap the string around something and go back the other way.\u00a0 Eventually the string was unwound all over the place.\u00a0 I thought it was fun.<\/p>\n
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