Spread Your Roots and Fly

About 2 months ago my Pastor preached a sermon that I don’t remember at all. I couldn’t tell you what scripture it was from, what his key point was, or the powerful story he no doubt closed with, but there was one sentence that he said that I can’t get out of my head. Seriously, for the past 2 months this one sentence has been haunting me and has become the key point of this season of my life.

“You become the person God wants you to be as you spend time alone with Him. But you CANNOT accomplish the work God’s given you to do unless you function in the community of the local church and build a team of the people around you.”

Okay, so it’s 2 sentences. And he probably said it much more eloquently. But this idea, this word…TEAM…has been my default thought in recent months.

You see, my instinct is to be the lone ranger. I want to clear out on a crusade, with my cause and convictions, through the country causing change and challenging the Church (sorry, i got really excited about alliteration in that sentence).  But God has grabbed firmly ahold of my hand as I try to run ahead, and He has shown me that this thing is going to go differently than I thought.

I cannot do anything on my own. I will not accomplish the calling of God on my life without the people of God in my life.

I am still in the process of figuring out what this means specifically for the ministry that I feel God is giving me, but He has my attention in this area. As more and more of my generation decide that they can do Christianity without the structure of the community of God, I am increasingly aware of the fact that it is only in the locking of arms with each other that we will accomplish what God has given to the Church for such a time as this.

K

(this wasn’t meant to offend your sermon-writing skill, Pastor Randy… God used your mouth to say the words I needed to hear that Sunday .. so thank you.)