I’ve been asking around the Kingdom, polling young people on why their generation isn’t actively engaged in Kingdom affairs. I’ve heard a variety of different responses, but the common denominator seems to be boredom.
This truly blows my mind.
Is anybody out there serving the same Jesus that I’m serving? The one who says, “Go into all the world and make disciples?” I think the church must have slipped into a self-induced coma or something, because the Christian life is not boring, it’s an extreme sport.
God is challenging us to the most radical, unthinkable, crazy, off the wall, adventurous stuff we can come up with to spread the good news of the Kingdom. Some of you are bored because you’re in your room playing X Box when you should be in Costa Rica preaching the word in the streets. What has happened to our sense of adventure?
I met a guy recently that uses Monster truck rallies to spread the Gospel. Bet he’s not bored.
I was all over the Earth by the time I was 17 years old preaching the word, performing drama in the streets of Ecuador and Peru, praying for people to get saved in Spanish….and I don’t know Spanish!
If you’re not called to stay, you’re called to go. It’s time to remove your buttocks from the permanent impression that you’ve created in your couch cushions and do something.
Somebody needs to start a traveling paintball tournament to spread the gospel.
Somebody needs to sign up for a missions trip to Zimbabwe and preach the word to the tribes of Africa.
Since you guys like X Box so much, start a tournament that will attract hundreds of players and then hit them with the Gospel.
The more radical, the more outlandish, the more unthinkable, the better. Let’s do something for the Lord while we’re young, before the heaviness of life has a chance to grab a hold of you. Living in the Kingdom is an extreme sport for those who will engage it.
