Nooma Video #3 in Men’s Bible Study this morning
Apr 30, 2008 Faith in Culture
Happy Wednesday.
Each Wednesday morning, I gather with 8-12 men from my church for breakfast, Bible Study and prayer.
This morning, we watched one of Rob Bell’s Nooma videos - Nooma #3 “Trees” The message was a pretty cool one that I think we can all apply to our lives today as we work, and as we interact with our families, friends, clients, customers and the public at large.
Rob talked about how he was traveling once in a rental car and could not find the button to turn off the radio. He ended up listening to a well known radio evangelist for longer than he wanted to. The message presented was that we should all have Faith and wait patiently for the Lord to come and do what he would. Rob differed with this guys advice and here’s why.
If we sit back and wait, and don’t let our Faith take action, we are wasting so much awesome opportunity to go out and impact the world for Christ. Jesus was not a man of waiting… he was a man of ACTION. In the roughly 3 years of his ministry, we hear constantly of Jesus DOING. He preached, he taught, he healed, he interacted with people who needed help. He LOVED the world through his actions. The he called his disciples to do the same and calls us to do the same as well.
The time we are living in now is part of the Eternity we’re spending with the Father. Are we acting like it?
Let’s go out and live our lives with the joy that we have in Jesus Christ every day. Let’s be stoked about it and share that enthusiasm and passion with others. Enthusiasm and passion are contagious and we have so much to be enthusiastic about.
Let’s have a Faith that lives and breathes and grows and ACTS.
God Bless,
Wade
