Had a great meeting tonight with a bunch of like minded revolutionaries. Well not really revolutionaries; just guys who want to express Jesus to the world and one another in the manner closest how we understand Jesus did and still wants to do.

What do I mean? Well, as a teaser, look at the Gospels in this light: Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God. He never sought to initiate a structure or an organisation. The only thing that Jesus offered, and on which we all depend is this: relationship with Him. Think this through. So much of what we seek to do is centred around structure and form - which unless is as dynamic as the living relationship with Jesus, can be as antithetical to the Gospel as a help!

This requires that we stop thinking of Church as anything other than as being. We no more go to church than we "do" church. Church is not about anything else than a bunch of people getting together to supportively love one another, and to honour their Saviour. As soon as we start focusing on all the stuff that we have become accustomed to doing, we fall into the trap of forgetting our relationship and Christ's centrality to that, and start getting task orientated - even on "worthy" matters.

This runs entirely contrary to how we think and act normally. But we should not be surprised. Jesus and the prophets before Him came to us from "out of the wilderness", not from the centre of religion and establishment (Jerusalem). He came saying: "repent, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand". "Repent" means "Change your thinking". But we don't! That is the challenge. Change your thinking! Stop building petty kingdoms, and start seeking the Kingdom! And doesn't look like anything you have seen before, because if it does, it probably is not authentically God's.