Relevance

About 5 years ago, Jarrod was on the mission team at our old church--this was his passion. This is my passion in life--if I could leave tomorrow, kids in tow, I would go without hesitation across the world to proclaim Christ. I knowingly married a man who did not believe this to be his calling in life and I am happy with that also--mainly because I know that he has a passion and love for this area as great as mine--he just has a different approach. We committed to get involved and support missionaries in any ways that were possible for our family. So, back to my story...in the midst of this team, some things came up where the local outreach team needed to be combined with the foreign mission team. Admittedly, I had complete tunnel vision. I wasn't really excited about this--my thoughts rang with how could these two things be "the same"...I mean, we as Americans have had every opportunity to see God, to feel God and to be appreciative of God and sadly most have chosen not to be. To be quite frank, I had a really bad attitude about this indifference to God. Well...little did I know that God had planted a seed that I didn't even realize until recently. I am being molded and chiseled--I am being more convicted every day, God is being lost in our country. Some of the people I love the most in this world do not hold God as important and some with good reason--no one has been Christ TO them. I heard a song on the Lima mission team site a few months ago that I loved (God of This City)--I loved it as a song about all of those "cities" in other countries where the gospel needs to be. (Click here for the link--http://www.twentyeight19.org/2008/11/15/lima-video/ ) After reading an email that Jarrod has tried to get me to read for some time Jarrod and I have discussed that God is not relevant in our culture. People ask where God is and that's the answer that I'm coming to...he's here, he's just not relevant--even in our local churches...so my thoughts have wandered to this thought...God is the God of this City--right here--what are we doing to make Him relevant to those around us? I pray that I have a different answer for myself next week and the next.