Sick of the status quo
Tonight we attended a concert at Christ Community featuring a band from Australia called Five Star Streets. Most of the band is from Australia but the lead singer is from Montana. He left home at 18 - left behind his girlfriend and his Mom and Dad at the airport to board a plane to Australia. He got the call. He signed up for a 6 month study course down under on how to be an effective missionary. As he left all that was comfortable to him in tears and headed out to the plane, something extraordinary happened to him. He put one foot on the ramp up to the plane and froze. He couldn't take another step. He thought, "I don't want to go." Then he heard God say, "There is so much more..." and he took the next step and never looked back.

There is so much more.

He is 22 years old and wise beyond his years. He talked tonight and said, "There is a generation of young folks that are tired of the status quo - tired of not seeing things change. There is so much more and this generation is hungry for that 'more' that he speaks of (and Eldredge speaks of)."

Yes, friend...there is so much more.

We are called to shine like bright stars among a crooked and perverse world.

We are not called to an average faith. We are called to something extraordinary - something mystical - something far deeper than is easily understandable.

Yet our religion tells us to comply, to conform, to avoid tough questions, to be tame, to be "nice". Jesus was anything but a conformist. He turned Judaism upside down by challenging the status quo. He came to set the captive free.

It might take a rebellion to free the church. I am encouraged to hear this 22 year old say that his generation is hungry for more and tired of the status quo, tired of not seeing things change.

Something extraordiary is about to happen in Christ's church.

Soar!