A House Divided

I wonder if it's really possible anymore to spread Christ by word of mouth, in a wave of movement, as it was when Paul and Peter and other people walked all over the created world as they knew it, carrying nothing but blind trust. I want to believe that it's possible, but my Americanized world view and mindset rebels so thoroughly that I sit and speculate...could it happen? I pray so very earnestly that it could. I want to be part of something that does just that. I want to be part of something that is real - something that cares about people. Truly cares, as Jesus would and does.

I live on a campus so rigidly divided that I sometimes catch myself thinking that it isn't worth it to go into church work. I feel like the future pastors being trained here are so focused in on their theology and minute details that they are like someone looking in a microscope so closely at something that they have forgotten what is under the microscope at all. They are so concerned with the tiniest things which don't matter when one looks around Concordia and sees hurting people who need others who have the knowledge and the faith that God loves them to go to them and tell them that they ARE loved. Screw all this "insincerity in leading worship" and systematic theology crap.

I want people who are going to be leading our churches one day to wake up and see where the true will of God lies: in His people. And as my wise mother always says: "People won't listen to you until they know you give a damn about them."

Come on, church. Wake up. Give a damn.