God still calls out to all who will listen. SOmetimes I feel like, in the church, we have God all figured out. Sometimes I feel like we believe that if God is going to work he must and has to work through us. Of course, this isn’t the first time people believed this. Jesus was traveling and his disciples said, “Jesus someone was healing in your name and we told him to stop.” They were probably waiting for Jesus to commend them and thank them for taking the situation in their own hands. Jesus however doesn’t. He didn’t seem to mind that someone outside of their group was doing things in his name. We get upset when the church down the street does something. What would happen if God decided to work outside the church? What would happen if God decided to move away from our planned, packaged and marketed programs and went into the streets and started loving people? Would we freak out? Would we invite them to one of our programs? Would we be surprised if they said our programs lacked the reality of their meeting with God? The real cool thing is that God is still moving. God is still calling. I get so hung up about my church and my programs and my ministry. God is moving. He is able to do far more than I ever give him credit for. He really doesn’t need my programs. In fact, perhaps the definition of grace is that at times he reaches through my human offerings to change a life. What would happen if God stepped outside the church to do His work? What if He already has? What if, after getting the machine rolling, we are just keeping it oiled?