“Tired of Doing Church”

I heard a young singer once say, “My generation is tired of doing church.” She continued to highlight the way her parents’ generation “did church.” I understand exactly what she means; I really do. There are a lot of ills among the people of God in every generation. But I think of this:

• God gives a revelation of Himself to every age.
• I believe that it is all that we can take and handle as His “called-out ones” for that moment.
• For example, the religious leaders could not take the truth that was revealed to Paul
• Imperial Rome could not handle the truth given to church fathers like Wycliffe & Luther

Here’s an important point:

The truth that God has given believers throughout the century has always been enough to save, for instance:

• In my Baptist church (when I was younger) I came to salvation.
• But it wasn’t until I engaged in pentecostalism (as a young woman) that I discovered what it meant to have an intimate relationship with God; what it meant to tithe out of love obedience; what it mean to respect authority; and what it meant to worship God.
• It wasn’t until I was introduced to Messianic Judaism (as a more mature woman) did I learn the the necessity of reconnecting with the Jewish-rootedness of my faith and falling deeply in love with a Jewish Yeshua.

I think of how long I went –although saved– I had no intimacy with the Father and didn’t know Him as Daddy. I think of all my intimacy with Him and I didn’t really know His heart as it pertained to His biological children or the reality of why the Messiah entrenched himself in the Jewish culture from birth to death to resurrection!

So I understand what this young singer was saying. But I must say this — It might be easier to put down the roots of the past as opposed to thanking God for them and using them as stepping stones by which to move forward. The generations to come, I believe, can look back on the previous one and complain about it or be thankful for it and use it as a bow and become the arrow that is propelled forward by it.

Father, thank you for all of my experiences of the past, especially with the congregations you led me to and the way you moved. I know that before you return, Yeshua, you will move past the revelation that you have given each of them and move us all into perfection. Until then, Father, help us to hold on to the good and the truth that we have heard and allow it to build our faith and our trust in you. Even Paul shared with Timothy to do so: “What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.  Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.” (II Tim. 1: 13-14) Amen.

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