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Current mood:  happy Category: Life
I was listening to a sermon by Jason Upton and he made a couple of statements that struck my heart. I am assuming that you have had a similar experience where something that was said struck your heart more than the other things that were being said. The question that I began to ask my self after his statement was, am I a follower or a forerunner? Jason was referring to a local Church that he was leading worship in and their call to the community and making the comparison between being a follower or a forerunner, but I looked at my own life and began asking questions.
This topic covers all three categories that I am about to describe. For those of us who are apart of a local Church, have been apart of a local Church but aren't anymore and those of us who have never been apart of a local Church can all say that the current Church that we all see is in trouble and headed down a road that God never intended it to go down. Please hear my heart, Jennifer and I are madly in love with the Church ( the called out ones) and feel a call on our lives to help the Church become all that God intended it to be. With that said we can also say that it is in need of help and direction for it to do what God intended it to do. There are places across the western world where the local Church is shinning like a light in a dark place but by no means would I say that this shinning is the norm as a whole.
If we continue to do what we have always done we will have what we have always had. Now what we have hasn't always been something thats needed to be changed, but now is a clear reality that something new must break forth for us to become who we were destined to be. This idea is the difference between being a follower and a forerunner. Do we want to be an echo of yesterday and years gone by, or a voice to the present and what has yet to be. I believe that God is sovereignly raising up an army who will lead a great reformation in the way that life is lived in the local Church. These men and women will be forerunners not followers.
The difference between followers and forerunners, is simple yet profound. A follower follows whats already been done, and a forerunner looks for the face of Jesus in the present not the past. It's easy to see the face of Jesus from yesterday, but that will only take us so far, its only in seeing His face today and each new day to come that we can go where He is going, and say what He is saying. The hour demands that you and I respond to the place of whole hearted devotion in the context of a sermon on the mount lifestyle. The life of a forerunner isn't a life outside the Bible but rather a life within the boundaries of the Bible. All of creation is longing for the day when the sons and daughters of God are revealed to it, and let it be said of this generation that we didn't echo what worked for the years gone by, but we said what Jesus was saying right now, and did what Jesus was doing in the present not the past. Jesus was a forerunner cause He did only what He saw the Father doing, and not what He saw others doing.
10:32 PM
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