I am someone who remembers quite a few of their dreams after waking up. Let me tell you about one that I had recently....
I had a dream that I was in a big worship service, full of people worshipping Jesus Christ together. It seems like the Holy Spirit is moving in powerful ways. But during the sermon, this powerful message about living your life fully for Christ, someone looks at an empty chair next to someone else in the service and says "I don't want to sit by you." Then at the end of the service, there is a call for people to walk alongside new people to the faith and someone shouts out, "I don't want to disciple her."
It seems odd, right? Except in many of our places of worship, we may not say these things out loud, but we sure live them out with our lives.
Have you ever been to a worship service where you can just feel the tension in the room? There are all sorts of things that aren't said out loud but they are noticeable even to a stranger? Or maybe you have been to a gathering where things have been said, and people left, because they felt like the relationships they thought were so valuable at one point are now beyond repair?
It doesn't have to be that way. Jesus invites us into a whole new way of being that seeks to restore relationships in a way that the world may never have seen before but is a mark of the Kingdom. Is it easy? No. But nothing counter-cultural ever is.
We've tried the way of the world. What if we now try the way of the community of Christ?
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