Friday, 16 May 2008

• FRIDAY - EARLY IN THE MORNING
  
       Just a quick blog before I sleep.  I've been looking at ministry a bit differently lately.  I've been hearing of how our neighboring churches do their youth ministry.  Not only ministry structure but worship as well.  I think we all failed.  I've been thinking for about a good 3 hours this week on who leads the most perfect worship and the conclusion that I came to was that nobody does worship worthy enough to glorify God for who He truly is.  Also, it's wrong to say that one Church is doing it better than the next because if a Church was truly incorporating true biblical worship, that region around that Church should be crawling with believers!  Looking at the Church more as a whole, I look at Fullerton and realize that we're failing. 
  
       Some of the top dawgs in Fullerton...  FPC...  GKC...  Sa-Rang...  OKC...  TKC's not that far...  I mean, as big Churches go, these Churches are pretty big in Fullerton.  But... something's not right.  Something is itchin' where I"m just not satisfied.  Somewhere along the line each of us as individuals, we put priority in all the wrong things.  Why does the Church exist?  Who is it really for?  I mean, don't give yourself the basic sunday school answer but look at your Church closely and honestly answer, who is it really for?  I realized that if each individual who call themselves saints don't sanctify themselves fully in the Grace of God, worship can NEVER happen.  It just wouldn't be worship because worship is the overflow of our love for God.  Worship is the overflow of our natural reaction to the presence of God.  Worship is the natural response to daily walking with God.  If missions exist because worship doesn't (John Piper), than... why do saints exist?  Why do we exist? 
  
       I came up with a very basic structure for the Church.  Picture this.  Our life individually is represented with a cup.  As that cup overflows with our love for God, it overflows into a bowl called worship.  As that bowl called worship overflows, it overflows into a bigger bowl called evangelism.  As that bigger bowl called evangelism overflow, it overflows into the big picture called the Glory of God.  It is not enough to have just enough God where it fills our cup.  If that satisfies you, you're following the right God but for the wrong reason.  If your cup does overflow into worship but your worship bowl never overflows... then you have the right reason, just the wrong god...  Christianity is about following the right God for the right reason (Jon Rittenhouse). 
  
       Could I be wrong in all of this?  Maybe, I mean, I am a learning Pastor.  But one thing is for sure ladies and gentlemen....  believers, we've got to do better than this.  I"m going to try to live out that model I made.  I'm not just going to try tomorrow or on Sunday but every single day.  Every.  Single.  Day.  I know that my worship on Friday Night and Sunday Morning is heavily dictated by my worship on all the other days that I am not at Church corporately worshiping God.  Breathe In.  Breathe Out.  Time to try this.
  
       God Bless and Gud9ite

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