This blog is for my many adventures born-again spirit filled Jesus-name Christian right? Well I have a story about how a little mental venting helped me find an answer to a question that I'm sure many Christians of today want to know: Why is it so hard to get people to come to church?
As a christian the main objective is to perpetuate the gospel, is it not? The main reason God pulled us out of our situation and filled us with His Holy Spirit was so we could minister to others and help them come to God. I have been saved for a little more than 2 years now and though I have been successful in getting one of my friends and her father baptized, I feel unsatisfied. That event occurred like a year ago. What have i done since then? Who have I ministered to? I invite my friends to events and they actually do come. Which is awesome. I'm grateful they step foot onto church property lol. But When I invite them to an actual service, I get a different reply. If you are a friend of mine who i have invited to church and our reading this...feel no pressure to come. It just puzzles me is all.
Anyways I had just invited a friend to church to hear me sing a solo i'll be doing on sunday :). and she said "I'll come for the solo and then i'm leaving"...That really got me. So much effort is done to avoid church. This friend has the same attitude toward church that i did. I use to think, "Living a christian life is boring, i'll party now and live for God later...When I'm older." To me it was always later. But what disturbs me is Jesus is coming back. Get into God now because soon there will not be a later.
I was laying on my bed thinking " Why is it so hard to get people to come to one church service? Just one. Don't they want to go to Heaven? Don't they know that Jesus is coming back?" And then the Holy Ghost answered my own question, "Yea they want to go to Heaven, but they don't want to give up their life stlye. They know that one service is all it can take to convict their spirits and turn from their ways. One service is all it could take to draw them in and give them a hunger for the things of God. They don't want to hunger, they don't want to be convicted, they don't want to give up their life. They want to go to Heaven, but they don't want to change." This shouldn't have surprised me. You hear this all the time in services, about how people want God, but don't want to change. Don't want to live righteously. But somehow it still irks me because time is of the essence. It's running out. Yet human will holds some folks back.
I got an answer to my question which was awesome. Yet it still disturbs me...if I invite them to anything but church they'd come with no argument and no questions. Yet if I invite them to even a church event I get so much resistance. I pray against these barriers. I an not backing down. I want to take as many friends to Heaven with me as I can. I want to see as many of my friends lives change as I can.
And so I am learning, not all my adventures as a christian will be happy go lucky. Some will be pushing in the spirit and praying fervently for lost souls. Some will be encouraging yourself to keep pushing although in the natural, the situation looks bleak. Some adventures as a christian will push me out of my comfort zone...and that is how a little frustration can do one good. I'm frustrated with my friends attitude toward God, so I'll pray some more...that is all i can do.
