Compartments

I have been talking in conversations with people and thinking about being holistic about our lives. The Leap program this year is a complete leadership paradigm.  The new small group ministry Elements is set up to help you experience God in a complete way.  Fusion is transforming not to just be about the people who come but what to do with our faith once we have it.  As I explore this idea of being holistic in minstry I can't help but think about our faith journey.  To often we talk about our spiritual lives, work life, home life, or social life.  But we aren't living several lives at once we are one person, living one life, with one opportunity to live once on this planet.  Our tendency to compartmentalize our lives hurts us in the faith area the most.  When we put our life in catagorize we can rationalize sin.  Because this sport, activity, relationship isn't about God.  But that is fundamentaly flawed.  It is all about God.  He doesn't want a few hours of our time or 15 minutes a night before you go to sleep.  He wants your life, all of it. 

If you are in love with someone you don't just want to be around them ever once in a while.  You want to know them deeply, fully, passionately.  The same goes for God.  God wants to know you completely and work through your life completely.  When we start living like God is active with us all the time not just when we worship or pray or read the Bible but with ever breath that we take and every step that we take our lives will be changed.  Evidence of our faith will pour out.  The world will know that we are madly in love with Jesus by our words, our actions, the way we drive, speak, dress by everything that we do and are.  Because when we get serious about faith it takes over all of us.  When the compartments come down, we tear down the walls down that keep us from bearing fruit and being know for faith.  Because that is who we are a person of faith in Jesus Christ.