Spiritual Myopia

Poem from Elim Bible Week Ireland this morning (18th June, 2012)

We need healing, Lord!

Our spiritual myopia

Is eroding our vision

of a bigger plan.

So the inevitable

Collision

Of our church Utopia

With the limited

scope it has

Is making us

more comfortable

than we should be.

Our ground is getting

smaller,

So we get a bigger crowd

but on a smaller space

And we make the music loud

enough to drown out the cries

of the broken

and the poor.

Bigger congregations

won't answer segregation.

Locking ourselves in prayer

won't show that we care.

Enjoying when we meet

won't change the street.

Becoming more respectable

won't change the spectacle

Of communities that need

Hope infused

Sin refused

Tension defused

Satan confused

Saints enthused

We need healing, Lord.

New eyes to see

New ears to hear

That You are here!

Faith to believe that You win.

Courage to push the envelope

Until You envelop

People

Streets

Communities

Towns

Nations

Continents

And turn the world

Right way up.

We don't need bigger buildings

We need bigger hearts.

We don't need to increase our capacity for seats,

We need to increase our capacity to love.

We don't need more blessing

We need to be blessing more.

We don't need more grace,

We need to be more gracious.

We don't need more of God,

God needs more of us.

There isn't an answer around the corner

We are the answers hiding in a corner.

God doesn't need to fit into our plans

We need to fit into God's

And His plan is change from the inside out.

Hope from the foetus of faith

To the adulthood of the Kingdom

Courage that pushes us out

Birthing pangs that scream a declaration

Through the heavenlies

HE IS HERE.

God won in the Jerusalem dirt

When Christ was planted

Like a seed in the ground

Beside Golgotha's mound

And three days later

The Seed pushed through the earth...

The plant has been growing ever since

And we are now It's seed

Called to germinate

To propagate

To profligate

The Gospel.

God wins.

(c) Malcolm J Duncan

Comments

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Who is the `first mover'- God or us, when it comes to ministry?
Clearly the Word of God gives general directions for ministry, but it seems we can only act effectively `in the particular' when "it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose."
Hearing from God as to ministry, or launching out in some Biblically recommended ministry and seeing if God blesses the work, are the apparent options, - Any opinions on these thoughts?

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