Are You Ready?

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.” –James 4:17

I have heard a great deal of excitement both in our church and in our community about our upcoming Together for Lincoln project on September 28th. On that day we will worship at each individual church in the morning, go and serve out in our community in the late morning-early afternoon, and gather that evening for a combined worship service at Lincoln Christian College. We currently have about 13 churches participating, so it should be a real hoot.

But before we go and serve together in the streets of Lincoln, I feel like I need to warn you as well. What we are doing is basically taking a one day mission trip into our own community. We will go and serve people we may or may not know. We will go to parts of town we might generally just ignore. We will go and meet needs that we never even realized existed before. When we do that, God is bound to do something even larger than us. As much as we are hoping and praying that God does something through us, we are also hoping and praying that God does something even bigger in us.

Our prayer is that while this is technically only a one day event, that it will plant a seed within us for something much greater. We hope that we would begin to see the needs in our community not just when an application for help comes in, but whenever we go out. Chances are, if we really let God move, this could radically change the way that we live. We will begin to have a greater passion to serve people that will require us to either bury those desires or to choose to go and to live them out by serving others. This could be a very costly day.

Are you ready? Are you prepared to see Lincoln like you’ve never seen it before. Are you willing to let God move in your life in order to meet the needs of others? Are you ready to truly be the hands and feet of Christ?