The Body of Christ has become stagnant and lethargic over the years. We have quite simple settled. It seems we go to Church sit in our seat and listen to the sermon and walk out the door when it is over and forget all about it until the next service comes around. When the Pastor passes the plate and calls for tithes and offerings we put in our share and think we have done our part in reaching the lost and hurting for Christ. Yet if we are honest with ourselves and ask this question of ourselves, “What have we really done?” what would be our answer? Can we honestly say we have done anything with the knowledge we have gleaned over the years from attending Church? Can we be truthful in our answer and say we have done anything with what the Spirit of God has taught us over the course of our Christian walk?

The word tells us in Matthew 10:8 that we are to go forth and heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper and cast out devils. Freely we have received freely we are to give. It did not say go to Church plunk our money in the plate so that others can go out and fulfill the great commission. God called the entire body of Christ to answer this great commission. Yet very few have.

Each and every one of us at our new birth received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Each and every one of us has His power and His anointing available to us. Yet so few of us tap into it. Instead of going forth with what we know and reaching out to the man on the street who is hurting and in desperate need we go to Church hunker down in the pew and just hang on until the return of Christ. That is without a doubt being a “lukewarm” Christian. And the Word of God tells us in Revelation 3:16 that the Lord will spew us out of His mouth if we are lukewarm at His return.

It is our duty and our greatest privilege as a child of God to take what we have been freely given and give it to others.

I am not saying that we all have the same gifts and are all called to the same office but we are surely all called to reach out to the man in the street and freely give to him what each of us has received. We all have that anointing residing within us through the person of the Holy Spirit. We do not always need to call our Pastors to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils and cleanse the lepers. If we have grown in our spiritual walk and matured as the Word of God says we should then we have the right to call upon the anointing of God to do what He has called us to do. Whether it is to witness to another and share the Word of the Lord or to reach out a hand and touch someone who needs healing and restore their health.

We have been given so much from our Lord and Savior yet we hold on to it for dear life. We do not have a problem praying for each other at Church when the Pastor calls us to reach out and pray for those in “our midst”. But how many of us actually leave Church and pray for someone who doesn’t yet know Christ? How many of us freely give of what we know and what we have residing on the inside of us to the man on the street, the man who lives outside of our circles in the Church?

It is time for all of us to take a good long look at what we have actually done with what we have received. It is time for us all to step up and step outside of our comfort zone which has become our “Church” building and go beyond those closed doors. The man on the street is crying out in need of healing in spirit, soul and body. He comes asking, “please show me what you’ve got”. The man on the street is the very one Christ came for and died for. We were that man at one time and where would we be if someone in the body of Christ had not reached out to us and freely given to us what he had received?