Reformation

This is actually a post I was thinking on back in January.  I made some notes and ended up having surgery before I could finish my thoughts.
As my brain slowly restored and I fought my way back from a reality stuck in 2014, without smothering my friends with questions this time, my mind roamed back to this question about reformation.
Only twice more this was to be shortly repeated!  What a year!

I have often talked on the need for revival within what remains of the Christian Church and it has been a long held prayer of mine that God's Spirit would move to make this happen - but, there just are no signs of a return to God inside the Western Church ...  But, at least He is busy reaching out in other areas of the world!

As the years have passed, I have wondered if the Church has gone beyond the point of revival and now another reformation is required.  But how does one call a Church dedicated to self serving and pleasure, back to the real GOD, when it is so willingly blind?  This question has really vexed me!  But I really do not have the knowledge of what to do - other than to pray in earnest.  (here i am Lord, send Aaron ...  LOL)

And, this the 500th anniversary of Luther's decision to take action and post his concerrns on the Church door ...   I was 11 years old when I stood before that door.  I asked ate elderly priest there aboutr the importance of what had happened.   I learned about indulgences, the questions on the authority of the Bible and the growing idolatry within the church ...

Well, I was not a Christian back then and  the concerns of revolt within the Catholic church truly was meaningless to me.

But now I see a "christianity" sold out to all forms of entertainment, self serving, superstitious!  God is something given lip serve to, not heart felt dedication.

And my mind now wanders back to a meeting in 1973 of college students in Seattle, Washington.  I had only been there for a few months, knew very few people and was only there by chance - aj guy I had met invited me to go with him - bribed by pizza!  At one point, to drive home the speaker's argument, he asked all those willing to die on the spot to stand up.  Dutchman and I were the lone two to stand.  We were both new Christians, burned out already on life - wouldn't being in the presence of God be so much better?

The speaker made of joke of us and we were finally forced to leave early due to the increased abuses from this speaker.  It made no sense - unless there were "christians" and Christians, the majority being in name only.

Yeah, the need for revival - if not a full blown reformation - have languished in plain sight for generations.  Will God's Spirit raise up one to respond?  To take on the heresies of this age which blind people to whom God really is?

I do continue to pray so ...