Jesus Army: Magazine - Rant and rave

WE WERE eating cake and talking God. Confronted with the question "How do you show God's kingdom today?" there was a brief pause. We digested the question, and stopped eating cake (briefly).

The answers we came up with had this in common: everything that would show God's kingdom was an action.

There was no way around it. Words alone would not be enough. We would have to show people in the simplest way possible - by letting them see it in our own lives.

I realised then that it wasn't about letting God just be a part of my life; it was about letting Him be my whole life - breathing God, thinking God, hearing God.

There's really only one way to show God's love and to practise what Jesus tells us: it is to do it! You can sit around processing the thought of it, or arguing the theology behind it, and achieve - what? You have got to just move yourself and get out there.

This is one reason why I love my active church so much. We don't just look at the yellow, green, pink highlighted sentences in our Bibles; we really do get active, get doing it.

We dance on portable stages; we sing on joyful marches; we leap; we yell; we wear it on our clothes; we strum it on our guitars. We run Jesus Centres; we make teas and coffees for late-night party-goers; we work in kingdom businesses together; we give him a bed for the night; we help her with her English; we give up our Sunday morning lie-in to clean; we stay up late to listen. We live together in community; we laugh together and cry together; we share our possessions together; we lay down our lives together. We eat cake and talk God together.

In short, we action God's word; we live it out; we make it happen. We verb the kingdom - for Jesus.