Church Today

I have not talked about my church experiences yet, so I thought I would today because there was an amazing sermon. Mike Kurry was the speaker. He is a pastor in Tennessee and his message today was life changing.
He started with the question of whether you want God to help you or heal you. I thought to myself that I would want God to help me because I am not sick. However, he brought us to John 5.
In John 5,we read that Jesus goes to a pool and heals a cripple man by asking him if he wants to be healed and then tells him to Get up! The light that he brought to the verses were these things. First, Jesus asked the man if he wanted to walk, and the man responded that he did not have someone to HELP him into the water to be healed. This is an important part of the verse because it shows that the man was searching for help. We as Christians also search for help. Second, he mentioned the way Jesus answers the man. Get up! and take your mat. This is important to consider because it was the Sabbath and Jesus asked him to take his mat(which he would realistically never need again). On the sabbath in Jewish culture is was important not to carry anything over a few ounces. Lastly, the man was stopped by religious men who knew that seconds before this man could not walk and they didn't ask about his healing. They asked him why he was carrying his mat!!
Mike's point throughout this story was that Christian's are slowly trying to improve as people and ask God for HELP. But they will not simply ask for healing. This makes us as Christian stuck in a rut of only being able to do what we have power to do. God created us for his glory; therefore, we should be doing things that we can't do without him. Things that no barriers can effect (like culture in John 5).

Being in a different culture will many restrictions makes this a very powerful message to hear. I can do all things in Christ. As Christians, we should be doing things that we couldn't do without Christ not simply trying to become better. God wants us to do unmeasurable more than our best!

Pray that I think like this!