There are two things that I have to constanly remind myself:
1. Faith is willing to do the unorthodox.
2. Faith does not stay in a rut.
The usual way to enter a house is through a door, never through the roof (excluding my time as a firefighter, when I often entered homes through holes cut in roofs.)
But for the men in this story, that was the only way to get to Jesus, and so as unorthodox as it was, that is what they did.
1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (Mark 2:1-5)
A church that is stuck in a rut, or a church that sits around saying, "We’ve never done it that way before," or, "We tried it once & it didn’t work," will never succeed in its God-given tasks unless it dares to try something different once in a while.
I've often wondered which one came up with the idea or if it was all of them. I'm sure there was one guy who must have spoken up and said; "Wait! What about the roof?"
The example of these men teach us that faith will always continue trying, no matter what the obstalces or oppostitons are; no matter what the bi-laws or traditions are, and no matter what has always "been done in the past!"
What kind of faith do you have?
The kind of faith that turns around when you see a crowded house and a blocked door?
or the kind of faith that sees a crowded house and an empty roof?
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