"Are You Sill In Love"

I have recently been struggling with the trends I am seeing in the church today. It is not about the music, or styles, or preaching styles or even every new thing coming down the pike. What I struggle with is what seems to be a total disregard to a simple but powerful spiritual dynamic called faithfulness.

I tend to be a bit of statistical guy so I often have the tendency to look at data verses seeking the face of God as I know I should. I realize how unspiritual that sounds but it is simply who I am and I, like many of you eventually get back to the right place for the right answers.

In getting to the right place to get the right answers I find myself seeking the face of God. In fact the sense of heaviness and burden overwhelms me even as I write this blog today.

Perhaps our first thought is a simple one; people are simply not committed in this generation. The truth is that we are committed to doing and going to whatever we want to. We find the time and the resources to do what is most important us, or what we love.

2 Timothy 4:10 "Demas has left me because he loves the things of this life"...(NLT) Demas left the ministry and the things of God because his love for the things of this life were greater than his love God.

So my conclusion is that it is not about a lack of commitment, it is that we know longer have a love for Christ or the church that He died for. Revelations 2:4 "you don't love me or each other as you did at first"... (NLT)

I am praying that a renewed love for Christ will be stirred up within each of us. A love that will be stronger than any love we have for the things of this life, and as a result, we will again become faithful stewards of the promises of God.

If we are to be found faithful, it will be because we have a genuine love for God!!!

Pastor Ray