Dead? or Alive?
This week at my church we have revival meetings. The first night the evangelist got up to the pulpit and says, "It is not uncommon to hear people say that their home church is dead." The evangelist went on to say that he doesn't believe this is the problem. He believes are churches are too alive! (we all stare at him a little bit confused) He goes on to explain that our churches are not dead enough. We need to be more dead to ourselves and alive to the work of the Lord. We are too alive to our own selfish desires and needs. This has been something that has been on my mind a lot over the last few months. Right before I went back to school in the Fall one of my pastors mentioned in his message that he used to be very shy. He was shy until he stopped focusing on himself. I thought about this and realized that he was right. I can walk through a hallway at school where there are a 100 people I don't know and if I am not thinking about me and how they will view me than I...