Every week at my small group, we end our time praying for the empty chair. We ask God to help find people who need Him, and help us to lead them into Christian community and a relationship with Him.
But what if it actually happened?
What if God actually starting filling your empty chairs with godless heathens?
Things get dirty. You don’t just have pithy conversations about the way God has blessed you. You can’t use all you church-kid terminology. Some of your jokes don’t make sense. You have to accept someone else’s foul language, someone else’s lack of theological expertise. You have to figure out what to talk about when someone doesn’t listen to your Christian music and you don’t watch their foul movies. You have to knowingly embrace someone who has radically different sexual stands.
You have to smile, and authentically say that you’re glad to see this person.
You have to be comfortable with the discomfort they are about to cause.
When you follow Jesus, things get dirty.
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