Is There More?

In 1987, the Irish rock band, U2, released the song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” which quickly made it’s way to the top of the music charts.

As a young follower of Jesus at the time, I was struck by the lyrics… “You broke the bonds /And you loosed the chains/ Carried the cross/ Of my shame /Oh my shame/ You know I believe it.”  It was pretty stunning to hear a popular song expressing in such clear terms what I personally believed about Jesus and how He had impacted my life.

Yet, the song had a disconcerting refrain… “But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”  That made no sense to me.   Jesus was without a doubt the thing I had desperately been looking for.  I had the scars to show the proof of my desperate search.  He was the answer to my life’s deepest questions.  I had found what I was looking for.

Yet, twenty-four years later, I do find myself empathizing with the cry for more in my experience of Jesus.  Maybe you do too.  Do you ever find yourself asking God, is this it?  Is what I experience on a daily basis with You the extent of Your power in my life, or is there more? Is what I experience with Your people on a typical Sunday the fulfillment of Your vision for the organization that You said would prevail against the gates of Hades, or is there more?  Maybe I’m just a person with high expectations, but truthfully, I believe He has more for me, for you, and for His church.

That is why this week at Glenstone, we are beginning a study of the letter to the Ephesians.  You see, the letter to the Ephesians pulls back the curtain on what God has given us.  It describes the ‘more’ that most of us have yet to tap into.  It expresses God’s grand purposes for the church, which few of us have ever experienced.

So come this Sunday.  Come join us as we begin to hear God share with us the ‘more’ that He has promised and the ‘more’ that we privately long for.

See you there!

Scott