Complacent and Impotent

When you read the Book of Acts you see the church as a small group of people making a huge impact on their culture. Its a movement. The church in America, specifically in DFW, seems to be a huge group of people not really doing much. It seems impotent. Powerless.

If you were to ask people who attend church they probably couldn't see the difference. But when you look deeper you see complacency and comfort. Churches are very neat and pretty. Its kind of a social club. Jesus is part of the pie - an equal slice with family, work, and play.

What if Jesus was central? What if the way we did family, the way we did work, the way we played, centered around the Gospel and a bloody cross and empty tomb?

Fort Worth is growing like crazy. New developments are going up, droves of people, young and old, are moving from the suburbs back into the city. What kind of culture are they going to fall prey to? Comfort, affluence, and cool, urban life? Or, perhaps, through the transforming power of the Gospel, Christ would be worshipped AS THE WHOLE PIE, the hungry would be fed, the abused cared for, and lives would be changed.