What is missing in most churches?

Have you ever wondered why our churches are not like what we read about the early church in the Bible? Really it is not hard to figure out. John the Baptist told the early church what would happen when Jesus arrived on the scene:



Matthew 3:11



11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.



Jesus was going to send something very powerful...the Holy Spirit! Which he told the disciples right before He ascended back to heaven:



Acts 1:4-5



4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”



Acts 1:8



8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”



Ten days later the Holy Spirit came and filled 120 believers at Pentecost and they turned the world upside down for Jesus. They went from hiding for fear of loosing their lives to sharing the love of Jesus at any cost including some gruesome deaths! What was the difference? The Holy Spirit filled them and they had a fire for Christ. Today that fire is missing in most churches! We need a revival in our churches and see people as Christ sees people! They need Jesus, they need love, they need acceptance, they need the Word of God!



So how would you rate your church about being on fire for Jesus? Over the next few days we will look at what we can do to rekindle the fire through the Holy Spirit.



Tom