Taking the city

I was at a conference last week and took 16 of our people with me. Being with them for those two days reminded me that I have great people around me. I am bless and God is blessing because of those who are walking with me on this journey that we call Piedmont Church.

I was energized by them. They have caused me to believe that we can impact this city for the glory of God. Now I know that may sound a little too TV evangelist for many, it kind of does to me...but I am serious. I think that it is time to not sit back and let institutional Christianity rule the day. It is time for a community of people to shout out that Jesus died to start a movement and not just another institution.

Think about it, the Church is outlawed in China, but yet the church exist there. They can not stop it. If Christianity was just an institution you could rid the world of it, but you can't stop a movement.

We should believe that God desires to use us to take this amazing movement to every office, household, marriage, friendship in this city. I say we refuse to be quite and start living like Christ and love the unlovable around us, invest in the given up on, believe that God can change the most rebellious heart, and come to Piedmont expecting that to happen.

I am tired of the institutionalize, dead, boring, irrelevant Jesus that is often presented to people on Sundays. That is not my Christ, and it is not what people are looking for...it is time for an Uprising.

More to come....no I have lost my mind, I am just fired up on what can be in your life and mine.