This weekend I've been at a youth weekend away where youth groups from the Southeast of the UK gather together. I was eagerly awaiting the meeting on the Friday night, but was disappointed at what met me: an unenthusiastic band and a semi-passionate speaker. His message was great but the passion was lacking and as a result I felt that many people were switched off. He didn't seem to be living for God, yet he had given his life to Him. So when I got home this afternoon, tired and bored I took to searching the internet, as I often do, for some sort of interesting Christian media. YouTube was on my hit list and when the homepage appeared I felt led to the user 'IgniterMedia' who I subscribed to ages ago and promptly forgot about. I have stolen today's title from a video I found on their YouTube channel. This is the video I watched:
This video to me portrays the urgency needed to awaken our generation to the service of our King. God is calling us to be His servants and we keenly should answer this call. I often find, myself included, that my generation are good at criticising what happens in churches and moaning about issues such as the old people, the organ or the draughty church. However, this is not what we should be doing. If we think something is wrong there is a three step approach to solving it:
1. Pray about it: prayer is the initial step in everything in life. See what God thinks about it, after all it could be that the majority of the church likes the organ so removing it would have adverse effects.
1. Pray about it: prayer is the initial step in everything in life. See what God thinks about it, after all it could be that the majority of the church likes the organ so removing it would have adverse effects.
2. Think about the logistics of it. If you believe that god has said yes, or at least He hasn't said no, consider whether your plan will actually work. It is no use bringing up an idea at the church AGM if there is zero chance of success.
3. Present the idea to the congregation, the vicar, pastor or leader of the church is probably a good start. He/she may have had other people suggest similar ideas or may be able to see some flaws in it. They are mostly very wise people and know what is best to do for the congregation so are the best to help you.
If something is wrong in your church, it needs to be sorted or you need to understand why it may not necessarilly be wrong. Don't forget though that in everything we do we should be serving God. The changes you would like to make must be helping to build His kingdom on Earth and anything which stops this from happening is not a good idea.
If something is wrong in your church, it needs to be sorted or you need to understand why it may not necessarilly be wrong. Don't forget though that in everything we do we should be serving God. The changes you would like to make must be helping to build His kingdom on Earth and anything which stops this from happening is not a good idea.
My favourite band is Rend Collective and probably my favourite song of theirs is Build Your Kingdom Here which I think is a marvellous song for this topic. In all we do, we need to be building God's kingdom here on Earth so I really want to challenge you to think about your actions throughout today and consider whether they are building God's kingdom or preventing it from being built.
Thank you so much for reading, any comments are most welcome
God Bless and keep kingdom building
Love
Esther
P.S. I would advise you to take a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdJXKqVgtg
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