Do you ever have something that compells you to dream?! Or that one thing that sparks a desire in you to have an impact on other people's lives? Last night as I wandered off to bed at the Sheltons' home (in their very comfy guest bed I might add) I read a chapter of the book Blue Like Jazz. About half way through the chapter I found myself with a tear streaming down my cheek. It was not that what I had just read was some sob story made to make it's readers cry. Rather it was the fact that what the author was writing about broke my heart in a way that made me want to change it.
In his story of attending a very secular college as a Christian, Donald Miller writes something that struck me to my very core; he wrote: "these people hated the very idea of God and yet they cared about people more than I did." Could it be that Christians today have gotten so caught up in the rules and rituals of our "religion" that we have forgotten the very reason that we believe what we believe? Could it be that our relationships with God and with other people have been completely pushed aside in order to "preserve" a "holy life?" This quote struck me so hard because I know the truth that is behind it. Christians are often the LAST people will come to for help. We never offer help just because we want to show Christ's love... instead we offer help in order to bring people to our programs, churches and events. We are extremely quick to judge someone for not wearing the right thing to church on Sunday morning or for having too many tattoos but we fail to reach out to them in Christ's love.
I am completely moved and challenged. I truly want to change the world. I don't want to be someone that "sells God." I want people to see that I have a loving relationship with Him and that they can have one too. I want to be less of a "Christian" and more like Christ!!
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