But let me ask you a question. What do you think happens when the Holy Spirit really takes over a place? If your church is 100 people on Sunday, what would happen if 60% felt the call of God to live out in mission and ministry? There would be so many things going on that there would not be time to report them all to the board. Members would no longer be able to know about everything in their church. In fact, they would be engaged in ministry themselves, and would probably no longer be insisting that they know everything that is going on.
Tom Bandy wrote a book called Christian Chaos. It is about what happens to a church when the Holy Spirit takes over. So many things would be percolating up from the hearts of people that we could no longer draw an organizational chart of it. We could no longer control it.
Control it. Can we control the Holy Spirit anyway? Imagine a church that was beyond human management. The Holy Spirit just sending people out in every direction. Oh what joy! Oh what fulfillment. Oh what Chaos.
Glory to God, who is able to do far beyond all that we could ask or imagine by his power at work within us. Ephesians 3:20
It is a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.
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