Romans 5
Messy Church!
Are you willing to let your church become a messy church?
I’m not talking about the bathrooms or building or property management. I’m talking about the church! Listen to Romans 5:6-8 closely, “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Did you know that fishermen don’t catch clean fish? If we are to be fishers of men and women (Mark 1:17), then we must realize that, just like with catching fish, people are caught dirty (the “still sinners” of Romans 5:8).
Now, you can go to a restaurant and pay good money for the professionals to serve you up a cleaned and well-prepared fish in a beautiful environment, but I guarantee somewhere along the line someone caught that fish while it was still dirty from swimming in its natural habitat. That fisherman had to be willing to get dirty himself to catch that fish.
Churches should be more like the fisherman’s humble shack than the patron’s pristine restaurant!
Every person that Jesus Christ died for is still dirty with sin when the Holy Spirit leads them to a church gathering! The only place that will be a beautiful pristine restaurant with perfectly prepared fish is Heaven when all the family of God will be face-to-face with Jesus Christ. Glory to God!
Until that Day, we should expect messy…
Seize the moment and let’s gets messy for the Kingdom of God!