Is the A/C on?

For too long we have been silent. These words ring through my mind every morning when i wake up. They haunt me with each step. We say we hold onto this idea of salvation as our glorious hope, but yet we treat it as if it is something that we can hide and contain only in our self. We grip salvation as if it is a gift that if we share it, it will disappear from our lives. How can we be so complacent?
I sat in a church recently and heard the worship that was shared throughout the auditorium. It was so sweet and the presence of God was truly in that place. But something changed. As I stepped out of the nice AC foyer through the day into the hot summer day I felt a wave of heat slam into my face. And I realized something in that particular moment. How relevant is it that we as a church
Can relate our relationship with the world to the same relationship of the Air conditioning inside of the church to the heat of the outside world.
There is one thing that is completely essential for this whole idea of our world and its current state: it is dying and going to hell. The rate of death is not decreasing. There is nothing that is slowing down about it. If anything the mortality rate is increasing at a drastic pace. There is nothing that we can do about it. We cannot stop the inevitable, but we can change the eternal. Our community is on the brink of disaster of an eternity in hell and we are just sitting around doing absolutely nothing about it. It is almost just like that situation I experienced.
We sit in the comfort of our own church. We feel the cool relaxed environment completely oblivious to the outside world and the heat we face and the heat others are facing right now. We act as if we are members of an exclusive country club. We want to keep this environment we have to ourselves a secret and when we are in the out in the world we just long for that time when we are back in the comfort of that pew once again when the world around us is facing the heat of hell day in and day out.
This should absolutely not be. We were given a great commission by Christ to go into all of the world. It does not say to go in only when it is convenient for us or when we are comfortable. But instead we should find every opportunity to exemplify the love of Christ. It is becoming scary how the church is becoming complacent with the community around them living lives that are sending them straight to hell. Our heart and eyes should match that of Christ in seeing our friends and neighbors and the strangers on the street as lost opportunities for a soul to find the amazing love of Christ. There should be an attitude of excitement and anxiousness in our churches. It should be the same atmosphere like that in a basketball game, when time is running out, and you are losing and you begin to play and fight harder to win. That should be our attitude. We should see that time is running out and the clock is winding down.
So the next time you feel the cool breeze of the Air Conditioner ask yourself if you are doing all that you can be doing to reach the outside world for Christ and save them from that blistering heat.
So I ask you, is the A/C on?