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A pastor asks if the church is spiritually mature enough to carry Christ's authority. Jesus doesn't measure readiness by building size or worship volume, but most believers have stalled spiritually and can't fulfill their purpose.
A pastor asks if the church is spiritually mature enough to carry Christ's authority. Jesus doesn't measure readiness by building size or worship volume, but most believers have stalled spiritually and can't fulfill their purpose.
Can we carry the weight of Christ's body? No compromises. Every single one of us. And that is still true today. The head is in heaven. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, but his body, the church, is still being assembled, still being matured, still being prepared to bear the weight of his headship. Every generation, he's looking down at the earth from the kingdom of heaven. And asking the same question he asked in the first century, where is the body that can carry my head? I need you to touch your neighbor and say, neighbor, he's looking for a body. Say it. Say, neighbor, he's looking for a body. Now here is where most of us— is where most of us get uncomfortable, because we want to believe the body is ready. We want to believe the church is mature. We want to wave the banner of how big our ministries are, how full our buildings are, how loud our worship gets. But Jesus measures maturity differently than we do. The reason most of the church can't carry his head is because most of the church has stopped at the door. Ah, they can't carry his head because most of the church has stopped at the
