Jesus Was a Disruptor!
A few weeks ago I went to visit the church of a friend. The main scriptural text was from Matthew 21:12-13, and the messege was entitled “Disruptors.” This text referred to the day when Jesus went to the temple and had to regulate because the people had turned the sacred place, the “house of prayer,” into a farmer’s market/swap meet (my words, not his). To say that Jesus was not pleased is an understatement. However, unlike some of us, He was displeased enough to do something about it. Jesus was a disruptor!
Sermon Notes
You did not come for the normal, you came to change some things! You were created with great intent and extraordinary purpose. You were designed specifically to be the solution to a problem. Do your job.
When you get tired of something (the situation, the job, the problem, the relationship), you will do something about it. So, the opposite is also true. The reason why you haven’t done anything is because you are not tired enough! Often, we are so familiar and so content with the situation that we become faithful in our complacency. We don’t intend to be complacent, it just slips up on us because it has become common place. When you are no longer faithful and satisfied with the common, you just might be disruptor in the making.
Don’t get stuck in your old testimony! Sometimes God can do something so amazing and so life-changing that we want to tell everyone. You should; He’s an awsome God! However, if twenty years later that one amazing thing is the only thing you acknowledge that God has done for you, you have done yourself and God a disservice. God is no one-trick pony!  He is well-able to do more than one amazing thing for you. Yes, He did that one amazing thing way back then, but what has He done for you lately? In the words of my friend, Dr. Evertt McBee, “You can’t sing unto the Lord a new song if you are stuck in your old testimony.”
Upon Further Study
Later that Sunday as I was scrolling through Facebook, I noticed some friends from another church were discussing the sermon from their service. I kept seeing the words interrupt and interruption. Interesting. Then I listened to what seemed to be a random audio sermon. The repeated words in the audio were erupt and eruption. This was becoming curiouser and curiouser.
So, I, being the frustrated etymologist that I am, decided to do a little word study on the word stem -rupt. In its most basic form, -rupt means “to break.” Disrupt means to stop or to break up an event, an activity, or a process by causing a disturbance or a problem. Inturrupt means to stop the continuous progress of (an activity or process) or to break the continutity of somthing static. And finally, erupt means means to become active or to explode (break out) with fire and noise. Wow!
What Does it Mean?
My days of being comfortable are over! Gone are the days when I remain content because “I’m just one person” or “no one will hear me.” I have the power to change things, I just have to be willing to do so. If only one person reads this and is affected to change something, then I have done my job. But what if I didn’t share? I don’t want that to be on my record!
So what am I saying? All of us see some things that need to be changed, improved, or removed. Stop waiting on someone else to do it when it is well within your power. God has given you ideas and strategies to share but you are too scared or too stingy to share. Stop being a jellyback. Stop burying your talent. Disrupt some things! Inturrpt some things! Erupt!
When you realize there are great expectations for you, you won’t settle for mediocre. He made you great, so go and be great!
Intrinsically Traci Lynn 