Grow Up!

You would of thought that there was a dark force out there preventing me from seeing the 4th movie in the series of Die Hard flicks. But I am proud to say I finally sat down and watched it the other night. What a movie, I loved it and was wondering if God was calling me to change my last name to McClain instead of Pond. Not too long after watching the movie I sat down to do some studying for a upcoming d-now I am preaching in February and to my surprise I saw some similarities between our hero John McClain and Paul. Before you think I am becoming a heretic before your very eyes let me explain. I would have to agree with Pastor Mark Driscoll in Seattle that too many men in our culture today don't want to have anything to do with Church. It's not so much that they don't love Jesus, but that when they see men in the Church today they see a bunch of pretty boys in the choir that love to skip down the church hallways sucking on lolly pops. On and did I mention that a lot of these men are still not winning the fight on kicking porn out of their houses, or learning how to be Godly husbands and fathers. In the language that we read in Paul's letters to Timothy, Paul uses language not too different than our kick Butt friend John McClain. Paul urges Timothy to not be shaken up by people questioning him because of his young age but growing up spiritually and being a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Paul urges Timothy to watch out for people with bad agendas who carry bad doctrines that want nothing more that to disrupt God's household and invade the minds of good lay people. The more we read of Paul's desire for the Church the more we can see that God is not wanting some goofy and wimpy men, but wanting some men of Godly integrity and men of the word to influence the world for one reason alone, the renown of Jesus Christ.