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A Disturbing Dream
Recently a friend of mine called early in the morning to tell me about a troubling dream that had awakened her. She was not able to fully interpret it, and it was unsettling enough she was hoping for help.

In the dream she was walking down one of the main streets of our home city weeping deeply. The streets were full of people, but there were no born-again believers to be found anywhere. She was crying out to the Lord asking, "Where are all the Christians?"

About that time she looked up at an overpass that crosses this busy street in our city, which happens to be used by the railroad. Immediately a huge, shiny passenger train went speeding by, and it was full of people.

As her eyes followed the train, they locked onto a very long set of railroad tracks that faded into the distance, and she heard the Lord say to her, "My people have confused separation with isolation, and have turned feeding stations into fortresses."

I, too, needed a little help fully interpreting the part about the train, so I asked the Holy Spirit for insight and assistance. I also began to reference other resource materials. Well, we were fascinated by what the Lord revealed to me. The passenger train represented the Church. The railroad tracks represented tradition - stubborn, unchanging, habits.

We were both numb at the interpretation, which was that lost souls were wandering alone on our streets while the Christians were locked isolated inside in their shiny churches, racing down the tracks of stubborn, unchanging traditions too busy getting fed themselves to reach outside their walls to minister to the lost.

Caught Up in the Church World
Even though it wasn't my own, that dream has dogged my thinking since I heard it.

As I speak in churches across America it seems this dream could represent any one of them - churches in which the people inside are so busy doing "church" that they barely notice their friends, neighbors, and co-workers who are being left alone without messengers to share the gospel with them.

I'm concerned that we've become so inclusive, and lost in our own little church world, that we've lost the focus of what we've been called to do - reaching the lost with the gospel of hope and peace.

Not long ago I heard the story of a Christian man who had gone to a restaurant to eat a meal. As he looked up from his plate his eyes caught a little sign that stated, "Not responsible for lost or stolen items."

Immediately his heart was pierced, and his eyes filled with tears as he realized far too often that's the attitude of Christians towards unbelievers, and he bowed his head to repent.

Let us pray that we long for more opportunities to take the precious seed of the gospel into virgin territory where the gospel has never been preached, and where we know it will be received wholeheartedly...because it is so desperately needed.

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Author Biography

Becky Fischer
Web site: Kids In Ministry International
 
Becky Fischer, apostolic minister, writer, public speaker, graphic artist, and more, is the founder and director of Kids in Ministry International (KIMI). KIMI is a multifaceted ministry that trains children to walk in the supernatural power of God. It also equips leaders and parents to prepare children the same way. Becky has been in children's ministry for over 30 years, ten years as a children's pastor, and twenty years as the director of KIMI. Along with her international teams, she has trained thousands of children, teens, parents, and children's workers through conferences, Bible schools, mission trips, churches, and resource materials in over 50 nations. Becky herself has ministered in 29 of those nations.
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