I am a twentysomething. I'm very skeptical sometimes. I am very good at noticing the bad things in everything. And since I am a Christian twentysomething, I am very good at noticing the bad in church and Christianity.

While there might be some validity to noticing problems, all of that doesn't really matter if I don't do something about it.

And sometimes I can get so bogged down in my frustration that I forget the thing that's really driving me--God.

I don't mean to say that God is spurring me to complain. Most often, my complaining is never a good thing. But my frustration, on the other hand, has great potential to be a very good thing. So does yours, really.

It's just that I want to see God move in an amazing way. I want Him to renew His Spirit within His followers. I want Him to open up the hearts and minds of those who have fallen away and those who have never had an encounter with Him. I want Him to overwhelm us with His presence and use that to stretch us to litterally reach the world with the Gospel. I want Him to break down strongholds over His people, causing us to repent of our sin and come before Him as broken, helpless people. I want Him to make His name our highest priority over our agendas or disagreements.

I want to see God move in a way that's so amazing that we can only say, "WOW! That is so incredible that it couldn't be anything but the Almighty, Ever-present God of the Universe!"

I want to be a part of what He's doing. That's really my heart.

So let me be the first to apologize for just complaining about things and not being willing to really DO something about them. If God is going to really move amongst me, you, our friends, and our denomination, we've got to stop talking, and start doing.