20 Questions

I picked up a "20Q" handheld game yesterday to try and stump the omniscient computer that can supposedly guess whatever you are thinking within 20 questions or less. I wasn't expecting to blog about what happened, but some of life's biggest surprises can come in moments of low expectations!

I decided to pick in my mind "the church", the gathering and scattering of God's chosen people bought by His blood and sent for His name to be salt and light on the earth (I figured that would be harder to guess than "Ketchup"). What blew my mind was the questions that 20Q began to ask:
"Can it be heard?"
"Do you find it in a house?"
"Is it comforting?"
"Do you use it in the dark?"
"Does it affect you?"
"Can it change size?"
"Is it worth money?"
And my favorite: "Is it colorful?"

At Question 21, after admitting defeat, the 20Q game didn't relent. It tried some last ditch questions:
"Does it move?"
"Is it a source of energy?"
And finally, 20Q's best guess was: "Is it a FIRE?" What an apt description of what the church SHOULD be. The scriptures tell us that 'our God is a consuming fire', and that our lives and bodies should be a living sacrifice, a burning offering given to Him for His glory and our good.

May our hearts burn within us as we spend time with Jesus, and may the church spread like wildfire in these dark days of apathy and confusion.

Pilgrim