What if people got as excited about Jesus as they did alcohol? Now I realize that the entire world isn't filled with boozehounds, and I'm not saying Christians are alcoholics. Just picture this scene:
Friday afternoon on a college campus. People are walking out of their last class, a buzz of excitement is in the air, two days of freedom! You hear people talking as the walk - face to face, on their phones, text messenging their plans.
Imagine thousands of people gearing up to spend a night talking about Jesus, praising him or hitting the streets to share him with others.
What if instead of bars, there were mini-churches or places for Christians to meet and spend the night talking about what God is doing in their lives?
It sounds hokey, but think about it. We expend so much energy into things that hurt us, gloss over insecurity, and only compound our problems, yet we don't want to have the full struggle of true faith and giving our lives over to Jesus.
It's like we're grasping onto razor wire with our bare hands, and we're resisting Jesus's outstretched arms. Our hands, our fingers get sliced up and we cry out in pain. We become angry for the scars and ask "Where is God?"
Sounds silly, but I can count many of the ways I have clung to the razor wire in my own life.
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