This Sunday we are wrapping up our #sevenletters series with an 8th
letter – one to the church in Birmingham.
As a disclaimer, right from the start, I did not receive a revelation from
God while in a cave in Clemson (Clemson
fans usually don’t head into our caves until later in the football season). What I’ve imagined is definitely not Scripture but as I’ve worked through these 7 letters this summer I have wrestled with
what specifically Jesus might say to His church today and this Sunday’s message
is my best sense of what that might be.
It’s a message I’ve been working on for months now as
God has been burdening my heart about His vision for Mountaintop this
fall. This may be the most important message I’ve shared with you since I
arrived last November. To help you
prepare here’s what I imagine Jesus might write to His church at Mountaintop:
To the angel
of the Church in Birmingham write: These
are the words of the Lord of the Banquet who satisfies those who hunger and
thirst for righteousness. I know your
deeds and your heart for those who have wandered away from Me. You have opened a door and welcomed them
home. Yet I have this against you; you
have grown complacent and there is still room.
Go quickly into the streets and
alleys of the town, to the roads and country lanes and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind and the lame. Compel
them to come so that My house will be full.
All who respond to My invitation will come from east and west and north
and south and sit with Me at the feast in the kingdom of God. Whoever has ears to hear listen to what the
Spirit says to the church.
Sunday morning I will be
unpacking what I am convinced this means for you and for me as we join in the
new things God is doing all around us. This is a Sunday you don’t want to miss.
