Time to upgrade …

The iPhone 5 is out today, which means there are long lines of people who have been camped outside Apple stores for days now.

People get excited about the next version of an iPhone, to the point they set aside funds for the upgrade, and rearrange their schedules to ride out the lines to be the first to get the latest gadget upgrade.

How phenomenal it would be if people were as excited to get into the church to hear God’s Word as they are about getting an upgrade.

Could you imagine seeing lines of people just to get inside a church service?

If you think about the fact the Word of God is far more transformative to your life and this world than technology will ever be, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

And when you look at the growth of the early church, it even sounds possible.

People were flocking to the early church by whole households. We read of thousands joining the church after a single sermon. Not because they could buy something, but because they could get something for free. Something their Christian friends were so excited about, something their Christian friends demonstrated with such love and abandon, the others just had to be a part of it.

These people wanted the upgrade to their lives their friends had: from sinner to saint, from enslaved to free, from lost to saved, from enemy to adopted as God’s own child.

That’s an upgrade to be excited about!

Is that the upgrade you share with your friends? Is that the kind of upgrade that gets you so excited you share the news with unleashed enthusiasm?

Or do you get more excited about the next iPhone than you do about being saved?

Scotty