One of the biggest dangers Christians
face is thinking inside the proverbial religious box. When we talk about
“a great move of God” or “revival” we often contextualize it inside a
church building.
Even when we take it “to the streets”
it still looks a lot like it does inside the church walls. We speak to
people using the same language and pray for them just like we do in
church, except that the setting has changed.
If people
are not interested in experiencing it inside the church, then why would
they want to experience it outside the church? Trying to invoke a move
of God this way does not recognize how God is already moving in people’s
lives apart from traditional church activities.
The
New Testament church was different. They had an advantage. The fact that
they had no buildings or traditions to protect provided them with a
wide-open field of thinking. They were able to see the world in a whole
new light, one that exposed the closed-mindedness of the Jewish ideas
regarding the work of God among the gentile people.
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