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“No Excuse” by David Bowden

I write to you, 

Poets and martyrs

Disciples and daughters

Elders and brothers

Christians and lovers

Pastors and teachers

Prophets and preachers

I write to you, leaders. 

That you might gather the weapons from your armories

Grab your pulpits and mics, stages and lights

Buildings and pews, your resources be used.

For the wife has been bruised, her body has been beaten and bludgeoned.

She’s cheated on the man she once pursued, for the bride has no forgotten her husband. 

I write to you, for you have been summoned. 

That you might sacrifice your church services and your functions

Your evening worship and your luncheons. 

Bring your members by the dozen, no matter your short comings or dysfunctions.

 You have been summoned to bare this insistence, that God wants to use every part of your existence. 

And none of you are any different. If your church is slowing or insurgent, older or but infant, you are part of the resistance. 

To stand your ground against the armies of apathy rising against us. 

I write to you, for I see Christians, but I don’t see Christ. 

I see people living but not surrendering life. 

I see large buildings that cannot see strife.

I see free salvation that is way under priced. 

I see a body called to poverty by wealth be enticed. 

And I know you see it, too. 

Our alliance has been spliced, unsatisfied with the riches of the world when God’s kingdom should have sufficed. 

I write to you who are so to be revolutionaries to encourage in in the cause you will be influencing. 

I write to you to tell you that you have all that you need. 

And that’s not another book, conference, facility, or degree. 

it’s not a bigger budget, membership, network or buidling. 

For Christ conquered death with only a tree.

And if you have more than that, how much more will he want to see?

For you see, you have all that you need

For you have breath, feet, blood, tears, pulse, hands, eyes, ears. 

You have brothers and sisters, resources and givers, a world full of sin and a God that is bigger.

You have all that you need, and you will need all that you have. 

For the life influence by Christ cannot be given in halves. 

It will not spare a drop, it will not scare or stop.

But will sell all it’s got for that treasure in the empty lot. 

You need all you have for you know the cost. 

It may cause you toss away your money, house, car, clothes. 

The cause may cost you lose all of those. 

But what if it cost your reputation, position, your job and ambitions

Your identity, decisions, respect, your best intentions?

You will need all you have for you have all that you need and all you have is all He needs for all you need is all He has.

With great urgency, I write this muse, for the one thing we do not have is an excuse. 

We have a mighty God who became poor and bruised. What do not have is an excuse. 

We have the Holy Spirit inhabited for God’s own use. What do not have is an excuse. 

We have a sure resurrection, the power of death diffused. What we do not have is an excuse. 

We have the Words of Life, the greatest of news. What we do not have is an excuse. 

That is why I write to you this insisting issuance that you might leave with great prudence to a world full of darkness may we be a holy nuisance

As we lead the cause of Christ through the power of His influence.

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