Living the words

Had a fun and enjoyable chat last night at outreach at http://houstonsfirst.org and several thoughts immerged. The topic of the discussion was "service projects" and what different classes were doing for them. I explained what our class, Night Light, is doing, and people were interested, in hearing more about both Noah's Kitchen and our "water ministry."
From this time came a couple of thoughts came out. 1) Becoming a follower of Christ is fine. In word there is nothing wrong with that. This will "establish" a relationship with God and His Son. Going to church, going to Sunday School, having some involvement is all well and good. I was there for more years than I can count, marginal involvement as long as it didn't infringe on my life or require more than I was willing to give. I think that we as followers of Christ can drift along this way for a whole lifetime, being happy that we are in church, doing our thing. BUT
I have been learning God calls us to so much more...
2)God calls us to not only have a relationship with Him, and to call others to "come and see" the God we have a relationship with, but become involved with those who don't know God or even want to know Him. I at first thought it was purely for the good feelings produced that I got involved at a bit of a deeper level, but then realized that a peace and a sense of completeness comes along is a much larger reason calls us to involvement with a lost world. God created us to relationships both with Himself and then also with others. When we take opportunity to go and do get involved with people we begin to get back to God's original design on us and for us.
Will keep on thinking about this more and keep sharing more as I learn more, till then...