Jesus = The Centre

Just to warn, this post is completely religious based. I wrote it in a moment of personal realisation and thought that it could maybe help someone else out there.

I was reading an article on Relevant Magazines website called The New Jesus Movement and my oh my, it helped put my definition of "church" right into perspective. Even so more because of the season I'm currently in my life.

I have just started my first year at university and with that comes many challenges, but to me the most important of them all is finding a church, by myself, for the first time. In trying to find a church for yourself, you really need to know what exactly your looking for. I'd been going on the basis that God's Spirit would somehow indicate to me which church he wanted me to settle in when I visited it. But reading this article really put into perspective exactly what I should actively be looking for in my search.

Jesus at the centre.

Its really that simple. The church that I will eventually settle in once I find it will be Jesus centred and nothing more. Everything will stem from the desire to know Jesus, the love that the church has for Jesus and nothing else. This is the pivotal point of Christianity, the part that sets it apart from everything else. Jesus.

But I realise that its not just the church I become a part of that must have Jesus at the centre. I need to change my prospect of life so that Jesus lies at the very centre, the core of my whole life.

I don't want to become one of those people who complains about the church doing it wrong when I, myself, am doing it wrong. I want my life to reflect the forgiveness, the redemption that's at the core of my faith. When the Truth is centre of everything that I do, when the Truth is so deeply rooted, embedded within me, the only natural result is that I'll become a loving person, I'll become someone who wishes to serve faithfully because that what Jesus did. And as a result, I'll desire to be a part of a community, a family where they too want to serve, they too want to live faithfully. It will no longer be matter of looking for a Jesus centred church because I'll automatically be drawn to the people who are living like Jesus without them even saying so.

That's the life I want to live. With Jesus at the centre, because without me realising he made his way to the centre of my heart.


Ellah xx