Have you ever seen a
city-wide Church? It’s the Church that Jesus sees when He looks at Boston
and the surrounding area, the Church that’s made up of all those who are truly
following Him. Usually this city-wide Church is invisible to us—one of the
major goals of 10 Days is to make it
visible, and in the process, reveal who Jesus is. We are His Body, after
all!
While we are the Body of
Christ on earth right now, Jesus Himself is physically in heaven, seated at
God’s right hand. We know He’s coming back quickly; as some of us repeat
every Sunday in the Apostle’s Creed “He is coming again to judge the living and
the dead”. We know that “when we see Him, we will be like Him”.
Romans 8:23 speaks of
this deep longing for Christ’s return when it says, “we groan inwardly, waiting
eagerly for…the redemption of our bodies.” 10 Days is designed to bring
that groan, which is already deep inside of us, to the surface.
It’s a longing for
things to be as they should be.
It’s a mourning because
of sin and brokenness in us and in the world which causes the daily devastation
we’ve come to accept.
It’s a recognition that
there’s only one who can satisfy, that there is only one who can Rescue.
It’s a heart-cry for
Jesus’ return.
Matt. 9:15 “How can the
guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when
the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”
Envision
One Day
Here’s what a typical
day will look like:
Believers will have
spent the day in God's presence through prayer and worship. That
fragrance of worship will be filling the place and even spilling out into the
neighborhood. The hearts of those who have spent the day in prayer will
be sensitized to God’s presence—their lives will have been touched. In
the afternoon God will be touching lives outside the church through the
outreach.
By the time the evening
gathering comes, there will be testimonies of what God has done in the prayer
room and on the streets. Then, a large cross-section of the church in
that area will gather together. Brothers and sisters gathering for
worship from every tribe, tongue, nation, and language; for many of them this
is their first time to worship together, all together declaring the praise and
goodness of God as they cry out for God’s intervention in Boston and the surrounding
area with one voice.
