What sort of an Army ? (6)

… an Army that sees personal repentance as more important than public relations.

Now here’s a tricky one! Or is it?

Without any doubt there is a need for us to experience personal repentance in order to have a real experience of Jesus in our live: the need to confess our need of Him within us and to list our sins before Him in order to empty ourselves of our selfish ways and allow Him to enter into fullness within us. No personal repentance – no real relationship with Christ.

However what appears to happen within the Church is that we feel we need to be on a constant marketing campaign for our own fellowship, church or Corps. We end up preaching ‘churchianity’ rather than Christ. We promote the quality of our music, the diversity of our community ministry, the depth of the teaching when the truth is held within our Biblical doctrine: ‘He that believes has the witness in himself’

If we confess Christ with our lips and reflect Him in our actions we don’t need fancy gimmicks or justifications (it is equally no need to be slack either) for Jesus attracts all people to Himself – it is our attempts at being His PR agents that stop so many people seeing Him. So many people have judged the Church on it’s representatives – let each give their family, friends and neighbours opportunity of encountering Christ by making ourselves vulnerable by speaking His name and the new life we have discovered in Him.