Inspirations From The Mountains

September 14, 2009

      Ahhh! Football season again. What a thrilling time for those who love the sport. Our local team is well into practice, learning new strategies, polishing skills and gaining strength. Our cheerleaders are busy too. There are rusty routines to polish and new cheers to learn. School will start soon, and then it will be pep rally time. Most of the population of the high school will storm the auditorium, or wherever the rallies are held, and the cheer leaders will do everything they can to get everybody pumped up. Everybody has a great time. Then, when the rally is over, the student body is dismissed to go back to class, or to catch their ride home. Right? Wrong! The primary purpose of the cheer leading squad is to prepare the team mentally and emotionally to get out on that field and defeat their opponent.
     Isn't this what our church services are supposed to be all about? Instead of a refueling station, we meet together to have a spiritual pep rally. We worship, listen to the Word preached, have fellowship, and sometimes we see souls saved and even miracles. This is good, and certainly God's plan for believers. But so often that is as far as it goes. They are like a football pep rally with no game afterwards, and as a result the opponent is never defeated.
     What the church in America needs is not just another spiritual pep rally to excite us. We need an Acts chapter 2 revival the brings us to repentance, fills us with Holy Ghost power, and then spills us out onto the streets to defeat the enemy by rescuing the lost and dying. (Acts 2:41) The day of Pentecost records 3000 souls saved the first day, then goes on to say more were added daily.
     Dear believers, a church without outreach is very much like a pep rally with no game afterwards. I beseech you, pray for revival, the Acts chapter 2 kind.
     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. (Acts 1:8)
     Then the master said to the servant, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full." Luke (Luke 14:23)    --Rebecca Somoskey