Open Letter

Dear ____________:
I am writing to help you shake this feeling of uselessness that has overtaken you. Several times you’ve said that you don’t see how the Messiah can possibles use you. The Church must bear part of the responsibility for making you feel as you do. I have in mind the success-story mentality of the Church. I have seen church bulletin of ‘name drop’, speakers that uses their influential position to witness for the Messiah. I have heard testimonies from ‘name drops’ that witness for the Messiah. We are led to think that if you don’t have the leverage of stardom or a big influence position in the business world, you might as well keep your mouth shut. Nobody cares what the Messiah has done for ‘ordinary’ people.
We’ve forgotten an elementary fact about Christian witness, something that should encourage you: G-d has chosen what the world calls foolish to shame the wise.
He has chosen what he world called weak to shame the strong.
He has chosen things of little strength and of small repute, yes, and even things which have no real existence to explode the pretensions of the things that are, that no man may boast in the presence of G-d.
When the Messiah chose His disciples, He didn’t choose Olympic Champs or Roman Senators. He chose simple people like you and me. Some were fishermen, one was a political extremist, and another was a publican, a nobody in that society. But these men turned the Roman world upside down for the Messiah. How do they do it? Through their popularity? They had none. Their position? They had none. Their power was the power of the Messiah through the Holy Spirit. Why do we insist on name droppers? Would people not come to a conference or to hear a speaker if they were nobodies? Are we lead by G-d and go to hear what He has for us, even if it was a donkey speaking?
Friend, don’t forget that we still need the ordinary in the hands of the Messiah to turn the world upside down. The ordinary people are those we can relate best to. G-d has said in the last days He is not going to use ‘name droppers’, but we must be insisting on it. Everyone had a testimony and needs to be a witness, variety is good for we know not whom we touch, you may reach one that I could not reach.

On the Cathedral in Lubeck, Germany this is written:
Ye call Me Master and obey Me not.
Ye call Me Light and see Me not.
Ye call Me Way and walk Me not.
Ye call Me Life and choose Me not.
Ye call Me Wise and follow Me not.
Ye call Me Fair and love Me not.
Ye call Me Rich and ask Me not.
Ye call Me Eternal and seek Me not.
Ye call Me Noble and serve Me not.
Ye call Me Gracious and trust Me not.
Ye call Me Might and honor Me not.
Ye call Me Just and fear Me not.If I condemn you, blame Me not.