So the question was asked: do you want a life of “spirituality” or resurrection? And the question after the question was raised…

Yes, resurrection. No, ineffective spirituality. Now what does that mean practically? How does my life end up looking different if it’s really completely surrendered?

So much of what God has to offer is found when you find the Holy Ghost asking you this question intensely and consistently. In fact, if the Holy Ghost is not asking you this question intensely and consistently, you’ve either stuffed yourself to the gills with religiousness or you’re just not listening.

People talk about the crisis of conversion or the crisis of re-dedication. What about the crisis of waking up every morning and deciding whether you live or Christ lives in you? That crisis is so easily and beautifully resolved, because the Spirit rushes in any time he hears genuine surrender. But what if we live totally oblivious to this, assuming that we’ve got life pretty much figured out?

What about the crisis of realizing the Word of Christ turned everything it ever entered upside down? Jesus knocked over cash registers, he spoke in riddles, he raised the dead. Put him in an oppressive church environment; he asks religion a question it can’t answer, then tells a paralyzed man his sins are forgiven and he can get up and walk. Put him in a life-threatening storm on a lake, and he commands the winds and waves to stop. Put him dead in a tomb, and the electrifying life-giving power of the Spirit comes on him and the angel of the Lord pops the sealed gravestone off.

The truth is that his life isn’t a superhero story for us to admire from afar. It is available to be lived out now. That same life-giving Holy Spirit would like to invade your life, turn it upside down, make it look exactly like the life Jesus lived - totally exploded with the personality and power of God.

So let me flip the question back. If you’re in the place of Jesus, and you’ve been baptized and the Holy Spirit comes upon you and Father says “this is my son, whom I love” (all of which has happened to you if you’ve truly given your life to Christ); what’s your next move?

(Hopefully your answer makes way more sense than me saying “Go to church twice a week, tithe, read a chapter of the Bible and pray 10 minutes every day.”)