Jack Hibbs - Wheels Up

In the coming months, we are all going to be given an opportunity to see if what we've learned as a church has been received with a welcoming heart. That, my friend, is a terrifying reality. Soon you and I will no longer be able to defend why we do not know more of God's word and haven't lived it out more faithfully. The time for preparing will be coming to an end, and then the time will arrive when we must do what we know.

Do you and I have faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, and if so - what will that look like when the pressure is applied to our profession of faith? For decades people have gone to Church or listened to a Preacher or a Bible teacher and have sat in judgment on the sermon, the worship, the comfort of the seats, the color pallet of the sanctuary – we've all done it, including me.

But the days of critiquing the style of a church service are gone because what is about to happen is that each of us is going to be tested by God to see what we have inside of us - if we were in a church that God used to transform our lives by the Word of God - the Bible. Did we go to Church to judge the message, or did the message judge us? Did we go to Church to judge the worship music, or did we worship music exalt Him in spirit and in truth? Did we go to Church to judge the Bible, or did the Bible judge us?