There's Someone at the Door Dear // There's a Knock at the Door, Part 1

<p>As we rush around doing all the things we do in life, the easiest thing in the world is for us to kind of believe in this Jesus … out there somewhere … but not really ever have a relationship with Him. It’s kind of a lukewarm thing … and as things turn out, that’s the last thing Jesus is looking for.</p> <p> </p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Knock, Knock – Who’s there?</strong></span></h4> <p>It’s so exciting to be with you again at the beginning of a new series of messages that we are kicking off today. And before we get going, let me share with you what brought me to this place.</p> <p>One of the things that I have done many, many times in churches around the world is to stand up the front, either leading worship or preaching, and one of the things I have noticed, especially, let me say, as people are supposedly worshipping God, is (what are the words?) a lack of engagement. You look around at the sea of faces and you can see the minds wandering – people being distracted by who is walking in late behind them; people looking at their watch … well, you can just tell that they are not there! Blankly staring into space – their lips might be moving, sure, but the last thing they are doing is actually worshipping God.</p> <p>Now, I don’t care whether you are someone who believes passionately in Jesus, or maybe … maybe you are someone who is not in that place. Maybe you would call yourself more an agnostic or an atheist but irrespective of where we are at, if we wandered into a church amongst people who professed to believe in this amazing God, we would all expect them to be sincere about their faith, wouldn’t we? I mean, we would!</p> <p>But a good many people aren’t! They go to church out of – I don’t know - a sense of obligation, maybe or maybe its habit. It blows my mind and that’s what led me to this series of messages. The series is called, “There’s a Knock at the Door,” and that’s a phrase that comes straight out of the Book of Revelation, as Jesus is speaking to a church where the people are lu