July 31, 2016 ·

Amos: Who Cares About Your Worship?

“Make sure that you aren't directly personally doing injustice to someone. Make sure that you aren't directly personally ignoring the injustice being done to someone. Make sure that you personally are listening to the call of the Spirit of God when he says to you when you're just a simple big farmer. Hey, I need you to go speak to this injustice. That's probably one of the hardest ones, isn't it? What is the Spirit of God putting on my heart to say to my culture? What's it trying to say to me and my family? And maybe my friends or my church or my company? I need to know this. I think the Lord is calling us through the prophets to live differently, to live prophetically, to have an imagination of hope that recognizes that God wants things different. He wants to break apart the power structures that are keeping injustice in place. You can't legislate it. I don't think it's totally political. We look to our political people. … We look to God. He's our hope, and what's he putting on the heart of the church? We are the alternative community that God is creating and using to change the world.”