Doubtless you have seen the “Mac” vs the “PC” commercials on TV. The Mac guy is this modern shirt sleeved – mussed hair – cool dude. While Mr P.C. is a stuffed shirt, jacket and tie geek with slicked back hair- – – out of touch and out of style. If you had to select which character your neighbor would say best represents the church today, which one would they choose?
Yea, I thought so. The church gets a bad rap from the world today. The church gets that bad rap, not from the media, but from us. Sad to say, that often times were are our own worst commercial. We are better known for what we are against and what we can’t do, than for what the church has to offer. Our attitudes and expressions often times lead others to think that the church is a place for zombies, rather than for those who have a vibrant and abundant life in Christ.
Last Sunday we talked about the things that Christians are to have died to; about things that have kept us addicted, chained, and miserable. But those things have been buried. However, that is only half of the story. The journey does not stop at the grave.
We don’t stay dead! We are not “Dead men walking.” The church is not to be a place full of people whose life has been drained out of them, who walk around with grey-pasty expressions and only sing funeral dirges continually.
Paul said, “We have been buried with Christ in baptism, but also added, “We are raised with Him…” “The life I now live…” he later adds.
He refers to Christ who came and gave us new, abundant, resurrection powered abilities not available to the ordinary – non redeemed individual.
Nope! The “energizer bunny” cannot hold a candle to the Christian who has put on Christ – who has a God given hope in his heart and Spirit supplied vitality that can shore him up in ways unimaginable to the world bound indidual.
Come join us this Sunday as we explore what it truly means to be “Alive in Christ”.