WE CAN BE HEROES

I'm probably a few years behind everyone else but catching up with blogging has taken me some time. Life has probably moved on now but I am still catching up so please bear with me. I have avoided it for too long but feel that now is the time. I am not becoming a facebooker or a tweeter that is for sure so my step into this realm of virtual readers is my attempt to look and sound cool when I have a conversation. But blogging was cool a long time ago. So what! I don't care!

So what will be my first blog? An observation.

We have been preaching through the story of Elijah recently and along with the amazing character and activity there is incredible observations in the story about the world. But not only Elijah's world, our world today, right now, right here. In looking at the post-Carmel experience it suddenly became clear to me that a miracle that takes place outside the city had no impact on the city. nothing changed. Jezebel and Jezreel stayed the same. The miracle of fire from a clear sky did not change the hearts of the people who didn't witness it. It is going to take more than a miracle to change the city and the lives of the people who live in it.

I borrowed a phrase from Tim Keller - we don't undertstand the sinfulness of sin. The city and the people in it are a long, long way from God and until we understand that we are never going to see lives, families, communities changed. It's going to take more than a miracle outside a city to change the city.

Jesus was put on a cross outside the city. And still the city isn't changed. It's going to take Houses full of Heroes to impact a community one life at a time, connecting the people inside their walls to the miracle outside the city walls. People who understand the sinfulness of sin and the gracefulness of grace. We can be heroes for more than one day.