Join the Adventure

A couple years ago, I read a New York Times article about an innovative new business. “Videogames Adventure Services” is a “reality adventures” company in Manhattan that uses trained actors and producers to stage adventures for its customers. Actors show up in the customer’s day-to-day affairs and intertwine an adventure or mystery with the customer’s life. The “Video Adventure Service’s” actors infuse exciting fiction into the customer’s everyday reality. The whole goal is to make customers feel like they are living a real life video game.

As I read this article, I was stricken by people’s inability to find adventure in their own lives. People so desperately want intrigue, but can’t recognize it when it is right in front of them. So, they pay top dollar for actors to fake it.

Christians lose something when we forget the adventure that Christ calls us to. As followers of Jesus, everything we do has adventurous implications in the spiritual realm. Caring for a hurting co-worker can be a strategic advance for God’s kingdom in a sick and dying world. Sharing our testimony with a neighbor can be a missile fired at the enemy. Standing up for the less fortunate can be a ninja-like maneuver for the Gospel. Losing site of the Christian adventure robs us of a lot of meaning in life.

In his letter to the church in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul encourages folks to be aware of the spiritual adventure in their lives. He writes, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Faithful living in everyday life is connected to incredible spiritual adventure.

As you worship this Sunday, remember that we stand in the presence of God Almighty. He has begun an all out attack on the powers of this world through His Son, Jesus Christ. He is here. He is on the move. We are His people and we can be a part of it when we join in the adventure.