Sheep and Goats... it's no joke!

I'm humbled to be loved by God... I'm privileged to be a part of serving the Kingdom in these end days... and I'm greived to be a part of a population of people who blatantly DO NOT get the gospel. I've been home from India for about two and a half months and the transition has been a roller coaster of joy and disappointment. The best way to describe my transition into full time ministry? Like meeting your childhood favorite celebrity and finding out they hate everything you love. In reality they can't possibly hate everything but the devastation of be awakened to important details of their identity bring huge dark clouds... and your excitement and joy turns to grief and heartbreak. This is my experience with the Western Church! What are we doing? This professed "Christian Nation" wrenches my heart. I'm constantly bombarded by churches who have adopted this grandeur "Lights, Camera, Action" approach to entice non-believers and those who have strayed into a relationship with Christ... once they are drawn into these million dollar buildings with the hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in technical equipment and guess what we preach from the stage... "God doesn't beg you to join his ministry, He won't plead with you to stay. If you think there's something better out there in the world then go chase that... God will still be here when you realize that everything else WILL fail you." TRUE! But what hypocrites we are... seems like we are begging people into church buildings to me... we now need millions of dollars a year just to run the show that has become the church and huge "teams" of rather well paid staff who maybe don't make millions but why do they exist? Why do Americans default to God being this huge tech whiz that loves to use media in the arts to make his point in America? When did that happen? NOT IN ACTS!

Why aren't we seeing growth in the US like were experiencing in India or China or Africa?
Simple we aren't people of faith! We are listeners of the word (and really good listeners at that) but we've lost our passion... we've lost our burden for the people who are missing from the eternal Kingdom of Heaven. We are missing opportunities because we've become hindered by consumerism and the need for more in our own lives that we miss the fact that people are dying in the world with nothing. We forget that not only is the person next door "our neighbor" but so is the Hindu half way around the world who's dying of starvation, begging on the streets and making less than 1 dollar per day. We've missed it! If we can't speak to our neighbors here in the US and we cant live missionally in our day to day lives then mission trips become the few times per year the we actually meet our maker in his created intent. Serving the world in need. Seeking and saving the lost. Extending ourselves SACRIFICIALLY as the hands and feet of Jesus! No wonder God called me to stay in India! How many others is he calling to do the same? Not because India is a more Godly place than the USA but rather when we escape the depravity of the world we've grown complacent in we can experience the majesty and fullness of Christ in the way God intended... through service. If we can't come home and continue to live the way we live on mission then God would simply say, STAY AWAY. Stay away from the places that hinder you from doing things outside the will of God and if that means the entire Christian population conducting a mass exodus to a less distracting land well then history would say this isn't the first time God has led his people in mass exodus form. There may be some time in the desert ahead of us but at the end of it all is the land of milk and honey where children play near snake holes and lions lay with lambs and that my friends... that is a promise God has made to those who hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful!