From as long as I can remember I was always enchanted, intrigued, and inspired by the stories of heroes. You have to excuse me, but I know my geek is showing. Yes I was the comic book collector of the neighborhood. I would trade my sports cards for Marvel Super hero cards. I remember being upset that DC Comics began killing off heroes like Superman and Batman’s sidekick, Robin. As a kid I wished that a radioactive spider would crawl into my bedroom and bite me while I was sleeping, or that the local area industrial plants would explode and expose me to gamma rays. When that didn’t happen, I decided that my only other choice was to become a billionaire so that I could spend my fortune developing a flying indestructible iron suit. I wanted to be a super hero, not just for the benefits super powers or because I am addicted to adventure, but because I wanted to save the world. And I thought, just like every other super hero fan, that I was the one to do it. When we were kids we thought we could do it. When did we stop believing that we were heroes? When did we stop believing that we were called to save the world? The place that is supposed to be breeding, training and dispersing more heroes than any other institution in world is the church. Unfortunately this hasn’t been the case in recent history. But the world’s need for heroes has grown more and more in recent history. We may not be indestructible or fly or are freakishly strong, but we still have a world that needs us. We stop wanting to be superheroes because we lose our vision. We lose our since of adventure. We lose the zeal of the calling that we originally had when the call was fresh. As people of God, we simply embrace that it is our turn. It is our turn, because it is a new world, with new people, but it is the same God. We aren’t the first heroes to do this. There is a difference between first and new. We aren’t the first people to go through this, we are just the new heroes that are doing this. We are the latest additions to the heroic storyline. When you choose to enter into this story with God, you are joining a line of heroes who said God, will you please use me to serve your world? Church!
