"I haven't come for only you"

This has probably been the most convicting week of my life and I am being dead serious right now. It started over the weekend with God graciously disciplining me and showing me idols that I have made in my life and things that I have sinfully put before him, things that are not bad but things that I have made bad, because I was worshiping the gifts of God above God. Then this week at Southern has been great commission week and some of the same things that God was showing me over the weekend were shown to be again through the chapel services but in an even bigger way. I am left speechless in my own depravity, but at the same time I know that God is sovereign and I cannot wrap by head around that right now why he would love me when I have been so shellfish when I have bought into to the lie of the cultural. But praise be to God for how big and loving he is!

I could sit here and type out my chapel notes or go through Exodus 33 or Romans 1-9 to show what God has been showing me and how sinful and selfish I am but not just me, but I am not writing to judge anyone so I will allow you to search your own heart in that. Instead thought there is a song that sums this whole week up and I will leave you with that....God again showed me how big and sovereign he is just through this cd...it was given to me this weekend by a friend and then this week everything in these songs came out in the chapel and classes...its Derek Webbs first cd she must and she shall go free

The Church:
I have come with one purpose to capture for myself a bride by my life she is lovely by my death she’s justified
i have always been her husband though many lovers she has known so with water i will wash her and by my word alone
so when you hear the sound of the water you will know you’re not alone
(chorus)‘cause i haven’t come for only you but for my people to pursue you cannot care for me with no regard for her if you love me you will love the church
i have long pursued her as a harlot and a whore but she will feast upon mes he will drink and thirst no more so when you taste my flesh and my blood you will know you’re not alone
(chorus)
there is none that can replace her though there are many who will try and though some may be her bridesmaids they can never be my bride
(chorus)

God did not just come to save me or to save you, he came for his church! And unlike popular belief and maybe not belief but the way we act his church is not just churches in America, he came for the nations. God came to save his church and his church is all over the world So what am I doing about that....up until now nothing, what are you doing about that? Our faith is not just about us, our salvation is not just about us it is for others....my salvation is for the billions of people around the world who are serving a god but Christ. God forgive me for making it about me, forgive me for not using the Gospel for you and your Glory. Forgive me for thinking that only certain people are called to "missions." It is not just a small group of people who were called to missions that is not the great commission.... We are supposed to build up disciples who can carry this out and then they build up disciples who carry it out to more people and so on....so lets make disciples....we weren't called to build church buildings, to have big numbers, to have great programs we were called to make disciples

God came for the church, the church is made up of people those people are all around and there are people who belong in his church who aren't in it yet, so what are we doing about it?