A PASTORAL EASTER NOTE
Expected End. Dalam bahasa Indonesia, hari depan yang penuh pengharapan.
Jika boleh saya simpulkan, pikiran dan perencanaan Tuhan berkaitan erat dengan ekspektasi kita. Ekspektasi besar akan di filter oleh FirmanNya dan kita biarkan pemikiran Tuhan dialirkan oleh RohNya.
Justru yang jadi kendala ketika ada area dalam hidup kita yang TANPA ekspektasi. Semua berjalan dengan automatic dan 'aman terkendali' sehingga normal adalah sesuatu yang layak untuk diterima.
Secara specific saya ingin membawa kepada beberapa hal seputar gereja;
Kisah Rasul 1 dan 2 mencatat Roh Kudus turun di hari Pentakosta bukan hanya karena sudah dijanjikan, tetapi RK turun karena orang yang berada di ruang atas PUNYA ekspektasi. Hasilnya: revival terjadi. Just like William Booth said 100 years ago, WE NEED ANOTHER PENTECOST, SEND THE FIRE TODAY.
Mari satukan hati kita supaya kita sama sama punya beberapa ekspektasi: (the rest will be in English)
1. We EXPECT the Lord to move mightily every time we gather in His name. Worship service will be filled with God's holy presence as the anointing is going to fill our brokenness and enable us to see Him face to face. I long to see His presence so thick, people trembles even when they arrived at the parking lot. I long to see healing, deliverance, and spontaneous baptism in our services. I long to see our worship can break the brazen sky, the fear of the Lord occupy every soul and there will be open heaven and prayers answered.
2. We EXPECT to see new converts. Unbelievers will receive Jesus in our services. We welcome all, yet are not satisfied with transfer growth as people from other churches wanting to 'try' our worship experiences. We want to see genuine repentance, really sick and broken people come to the church and touched by His Holy fire. I want to see new people, not only new to our church, but the ones who don't know Jesus. I long to see Baptism every Sunday, I long to see people line up for bible study, not because they want to finish 'ENGAGE' as soon as possible, but because they are hunger and thirst for the truth and for more of God'. I long to see people invite people and become evangelical and missional as we all know we all have one life to live, and the harvest is plentiful.
3. We EXPECT to see spontaneous worship and prophetic flows run freely in the church. I long to see families pray together and discussing the Word. I want to see the Kids and Teens prophesy. People in our College Community preach like there is no tomorrow and weep for souls and harvest like the end time is within the next hour. We will see wisdom and understanding and discernment amaze the city and shake the province and influence nations. As it is written, the mountain of the Lord shall be lifted up in the end days. The nations will cry, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord (the church), to the house of Jacob, there will be teachings there.
4. We EXPECT to see the services will be very big, yet the Care Groups will be small, CORPORATE, yet INTIMATE. PROFESSIONAL, yet FULL OF GRACE. BIG IN NUMBERS, yet BIGGER AT HEART. OLD IN WISDOM, yet YOUNG IN SPIRIT. SMART, yet HUMBLE. FIRM, yet FRIENDLY. TRUTHFUL yet LOVING. ACTIVE, yet not BUSY. BLESSED, yet GENEROUS. SOWING ALL THE TIME, also HARVESTING ALL THE TIME. PRUDENT, yet not STINGY. GIVING, yet NEVER LACKING. INFLUENCING, yet not INTIMIDATING.
The main ingredient in all conditions above is: JESUS. He is the source, the providence, the guide, the balm, the main reason, and the star of the whole ordeal. We need JESUS . We EXPECT Jesus to be glorified every time and in every aspect of our lives.
May we forever understand as we remember what the angel told the disciples 2000 years ago at the empty tomb, 'HE IS NOT HERE, HE IS RISEN!'. With THE LIVING JESUS on our side, we have everything, all our hopes and EXPECTATIONS are in Him.
Longing for more, send the fire AGAIN...
Sam
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