In Awe of God

The more I stay the more my eyes are opened and I see more aspects of

the culture and God´s place within it. I no longer see it as people

who go to church on Sunday and do nothing with it. Now it is more that

people DO NOT go to church except very few. The church is diminishing

here and Courtney and I are seeing a GREAT need for missionaries in

Europe (though we hope it wont be us, we don’t know what would be

harder being a missionary in Europe or in America.) We have also had

the opportunity to sit in a Spanish church service (30min long,,,yes

all of it) and sit in one of the most breathtaking churches. This church gives a whole new meaning to how we walk into and sit in church. Courtney and I stood outside and just looked at it…in my head I was thinking “this is too intimidating for someone seeking God and his forgiveness to feel worthy to walk into” when I said this Courtney responded in a way that I would not have expected. She said “isn’t that good?” At first I didn’t understand but then we started to talk about it. We talked about how we “people in America” don’t have fear for the Lord, he is was and will always be their “best friend” so there is an aspect of the relationship missing. However, we also have to be careful not to scare people into reading their bible, and praying, and committing their life to God (without the relationship) because that is when you create a church and people without the love of Christ and the WANT to know him!!! …then we walked into the church…

 

Each of us separated and walked around…then we both just sat down…silent…in awe….mind racing with questions. We sat infront of a statue of Jesus being crucified (in most churches) and it is one thing to visualize it in your head but when He is before you it takes it to another level. We left the church with our minds hurting from all of the concepts we were wrestling with and thinking about…it was awesome!!!

 

 These are the thoughts that have been running through my head:

·      12 disciples started ¨the church¨ in like one or two languages. Now

millions of people are disciples worshiping in many different

languages, and in many different parts of the world…God used …ONLY 12

PEOPLE!!!!

·      If this started with 12 people then think about what millions of

disciples can accomplish NOW for Gods kingdom

·      Disciples spent time going into cultures, learning the language of

the culture so that they could tell them about Jesus. They built

relationships with people instead of having translators constantly

there to translate their words and the bible, they learned the

language and they translated the bible.