When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. Matthew 9:36 (MSG)
When I was about 19, I began a job as an emergency responder. I can vividly recall one of my first calls because it started me on the journey I’m still on today.
When we arrived on the scene, the first thing I heard was a little toddler crying. He was sitting in the middle of the highway, surrounded by broken glass and wearing only a diaper. A crowd had gathered but no one dared touch him since he had been thrown from the vehicle on impact. Not far from him lay a baby with a fractured skull who was beyond help and the mother of both children, barely hanging on to life. The father and another man lay beyond them—one already dead and the other badly hurt.
It hit me hard later that day to find that both parents didn’t make it. As I continued to encounter situations like this one, my heart broke for people. Most of all, I wondered why the church seemed so irrelevant to this pain-filled world.
I believed in miracles and had witnessed several at church, but I wanted to see them in hospitals and in ditches at 3:00 a.m. when I was up to my ankles in water and blood. After all, Jesus healed people wherever He went.
What I wanted was a Spirit Contemporary approach. Being Spirit Contemporary is one of my favourite subjects. Over the next few days, I’m going to share a bit more about it because this has the potential to change everything you thought you knew about being a Christian.