Get Real November 23 Devotional
November 23, 2024
1 CORINTHIANS 9:19-21 | 19 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law.
The unity of the church is not static. It is not the achievement of a repeatable system, an archivable experience, a definitive formula. It is not the building of a secure network of closed relationships, in which the patterns of interaction remain forever the same. The unity of the church is not static because it is founded on the One who makes things new and who seeks and saves the lost. Churches cannot be static because God adds to their number, He wants to develop their constituency and expand their guest list.
This involves a holy kind of disruption. When I had a knee replacement, it felt like a mechanical part had been added to my body. For a year, it seemed to function O.K. but it seemed to be a foreign and alien part of my system. Then my brain remapped the area! The artificial and mechanical part was integrated in and I am now unaware of it, because it functions perfectly. The church is made to accept “alien parts” and to be continually remapping itself, adjusting to new gifts, new questions, and new people full of fresh possibilities.
Do you embrace and encourage God’s holy disruption?
