What Jesus Wants

"It must become the center and worth our time."

WHAT JESUS WANTS in the church is for people to know Him. He wants people to see Him and for the church to speak salvation. Every word we speak must be of the beauty of Christ and what His death and Resurrection did. We must seek for people to picture Him in our words so that they seek the Person of Jesus Christ. It should be as if He is standing there in front of them, and not be just a “spiritual experience.”

We must move away from church terms, that we’ve become overly familiar with, and see them as Him. When you’re comfortable, you’re not growing. When our theology becomes a vocabulary list, we’re lost.

• CHRIST is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• FAITH is complete trust in Their love for you.
• ANOINTING is the Holy Spirit, and all it does is Him at work.
• THE GIFTS or manifestations of the Spirit are best undefined and instead understood. They are a mix of flavors which enhance each other. The whole meaning of them, where they are defined by the apostle Paul, is that they are UNITY of the believers.
• FORGIVENESS AND HEALING are both what happens when you take hold of the LIFE of God, and that LIFE is God speaking, God reaching out.

There is no greater need in the church today than the altar call. It must become the center and worth our time and not an afterthought. Because the altar call is people. It is God speaking and people hearing. It is the heartbeat of God, THE REASON JESUS DIED.

We are to act like Jesus, react like Jesus, be self-controlled like Jesus, be generous like Jesus, be joyful like Jesus. We focus on being loud and powerful and out front. Jesus was silent in His greatest hour and willing to die (Mark 15:5). While we fight a war He’s already won, He’s seated on the throne, the enemies of our thinking, our emotions, our choices beneath His feet.

“And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.” (Mark 15:4-5)

The ending’s already been decreed. Peace on earth, goodwill to men, no more death, no more sorrow (Revelation 21:4). He’s not worried about America, Europe, or Asia. He’s not raging over political conflicts, not ours nor Israel’s nor anyone else’s. He simply wants His body, which is us, to speak His Words, then because we don’t react all sold out to our physical desires, people feel His Presence. In the grocery store, in the school hallway, in the parking lot of the nearby convenience store. Everywhere.

It is not that we invite someone to church, they are creeped out and reluctant, and we pace away determined to “get them there.” Inviting someone to church needs to be because the church we invite them to SHOWS JESUS (1 Peter 2:9). It is that they see Him in us which matters more, and only by walking in the Spirit, led of the Spirit, and not our physical natures (or a great use of vocabulary), will we speak what He would have us to say.

I’d rather say nothing and God be in it. I’d rather God in me be my reliance so that I please Jesus, than have all the wisdom and knowledge, all the physical wealth, any prestige from any pulpit in this world. The one is a sword wielded by the Spirit. The other will pass away.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” (Philippians 4:9)

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” (1 Peter 2:9)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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