19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.”
Do you ever put off making change-inducing
decisions? It is so much easier to allow
things to continue the way they are.
Scientists have tagged this phenomenon as inertia; something about a
body in motion continuing in straight-line motion until some outside force
comes in and forces a change. That guy
with the ball will keep running straight to the end zone until someone from the
other team makes the sacrificial effort to step up and make a violent tackle.
The same holds true for something
that is just sitting there, motionless.
It will not move until someone or something forces it to move. That teenage boy will remain practically
motionless for hours until his mother’s voice breaks into his PlayStation
world. As numbness sets in, only the
danger of serious consequences can provoke movement. An object at rest is resistant to change. It
can potentially remain at rest indefinitely.
Is this not true for the church?
Do we really believe in the validity of our rituals and traditions or has
inertia simply maintained us on our current path? Is our current behavior
stimulated from biblical Spirit-filled motivation or are we simply coasting in
the same old ruts?
Have we considered the biblical
responsibility of determining what it means to follow Jesus Christ today; this
decade, century, millennium? ……
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