Where are the gray areas in your life?
You know what I mean. Those areas that are not exactly of Christ and don't seem to be of the world.
Areas like:
You don't have time for prayer.
You don't have time to volunteer to help the poor.
You don't have time to help at the church.
You don't have time....
Luke tells this tale in the ninth chapter of his gospel. "John spoke up, 'Master, we saw a man driving out demons in your name, and we told him to stop, because he doesn't belong to our group.' 'Do not try to stop him,' Jesus said to him and to the other disciples, 'because whoever is not against you is for you.' "
As I read that, then, the ones who go to our churches but don't have time to help in any means or manner are still for us because they're not against us. Or... those who don't have time to help in any means or manner are against us because nothing they're doing is actually for us. You decide which it is.
The United Methodist church speaks to this when people join the church by asking if the person will support the church with their time, their gifts, their service. It's not enough to say you believe in Christ. The Bible says even the demons do that. But if you are FOR Jesus, then you must be For Jesus, it seems to me.
If you want to do something to help your fellow man, then do it. Do it now. Do it quickly. Do it for Jesus. The UMC says we are to make disciples for the transformation of the world. That is our pledge. That is our goal.
Yet we're too busy to do the job. That simply doesn't calculate.
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