Experience It

I realize that it is sometimes difficult to move from words and concepts into experience. Our way of learning in North American schools and churches and even businesses, has been one of a talking head dispensing information and the audience just receiving that information without much interaction.

But the Gospel is not a concept, it's not words. It's a powerful force that causes life transformation. I do not know how to explain it, nor do I know if I could. How can you explain dramatic, inside-out changes in people who are Christians - whether their experience is brand new or years old?

How can I explain to you how I have been set free, no longer stuck in the same routine I was stuck in before? How can I tell what happened to me to change me from someone who was afraid to interact with anyone (unless someone worked at drawing me out), to someone who is no longer afraid and can go out meet people and interact with others more easily?

How can I explain to you that my past no longer influences my today or my tomorrow?

How can I explain to you that I do not live in fear?

There are so many areas where I have experienced a change that is not from within me. This change has not come about because I have worked it up or willed myself to do something different than I have before.

The change is coming from a deep place within. The change is coming because Jesus is IN me, living and residing in me, changing me at a deep, core level - from glory to glory.

This is the power of the Gospel at work in me.