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Now that Nicholas is 2 ½ years old I find myself saying “no, you can’t do that,” or just simply “stop”  a lot more.

“No, you can’t jump head first off the couch.”

“Stop climbing the refrigerator. “

“Stop sticking your finger there.”

Sure my son is obviously a boy and boys do things that sometimes defy logic and really make you laugh.  But, he also lives uninhibited.  He is on GO mode.

What is it like to live unstoppable, to live in a way where “no” is something you just don’t hear.  Where the idea of stopping is not an option.  When I look at the modern church I think to myself, what would our world look like if we were unstoppable.  If there was no stopping the impact we as Christians could make on the world.

Too many times as Christians we say NO far to often.  Sure, you might be thinking to yourself “I never say NO to the church or to God.”  Your might not utter the words, but we say it far to often with our lives.  The way we live, the way we conduct ourselves as followers of Christ in the workplace etc etc..  We live as if we can’t do anything for the Kingdom of God.  We live lives that are led out of fear instead of faith.  Fear of what others will think, fear of what we will have to give up, fear of letting go of control.  So what do we do, we STOP.  We stop short of that point of full surrender, full obedience.

God wants us to be unstoppable and to have a life that is worthy of the grace and mercy we have been shown. The way I look at it is that we as Christ followers should respond in faithfulness based on what God has done for us, not based on what God can do for us.  It’s simple.  Through Christ we have new life.  We have hope.  We have forgiveness, restoration, the old is gone, and the new is here.  So it is heartbreaking to see Christians respond in a way that is so stoppable.

For the past few weeks we have been talking about what it would look like if we lived as if there was no stopping us.  If we lived in a way that let those around us who see us everyday know that no matter what the cost there would be no stopping us.  Imagine how things could be different.

When we live as if we are unstoppable:

We will see things we never thought we would see.

We will say thing we never thought we would say.

We will do things we never thought we would do.

We will experience things we never thought we would experience.