Is this all there is?

I think many American Christians are secretly asking this question: "Is this really all there is to the Christian Life?" They have believed and received Christ as Lord and savior and they know they are going to heaven. However, the life they are living may be rather mundane and or they may be losing the battle with sin and collapsing under the world's pressures. What they experience every Sunday and what they see in most other Christians is.... Uhhh... not very inspiring. But is this the Christian life as depicted in the Bible? I don't think so. I challenge you to look back at the book of Acts and Paul's letters written for the early churches. It appears to me like it was really wild and not very boring. Actually it was quite exciting and dangerous. God was showing up with power and it was rather chaotic. In fact the scriptures said that they were turning the world upside down. What we see consistently see in scripture is that when the gospel is preached, people are radically changed by it. Many times when the gospel was presented it was rejected and those who preached it were hated and killed. Believe it or not this is still happening today in other countries. The gospel is radically changing lives and many are killed for preaching it. Te answer to the question is Yes there is more but in order to find that life it begins with a radical love relationship with Jesus.

Start there and you will begin the journey to the More

Acts 17:5-7 (New King James Version)
5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. 7 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.”