the air as the mixture rapidly bends to flow toward the cylinders. In a church we might say, that some parishioners may suffer drop out… and these persons may snooze on Sunday morning in their own, self-centered centrifugal force.

 You can see that, depending on the shape of an engine manifold feed runner, a particular cylinder may run leaner or richer than its neighbors. Does this sound like the myriad of Christian churches in your area? How can this disparity be corrected? Simply put, a good preacher, is much like knowledgeable a hot rodder. The preacher can try to make sermons a bit like carbs which stagger-jet the fuel feed into manifold stove to compensate for error. By now, you non-mechanics should see where I’m going here… the Church is our Lord’s intake manifold!

 

Cross Injection!

Injection always works so much better because only air flows through the manifold. The fluid takes a more certain route… like when Jesus was earthly born in a manger in Bethlehem. You see, in spite of our sin, the real and mystical droplets of Jesus’ blood were eventually poured out upon the cross for our forgiveness. This was much like port fuel injection that uses greater pressure to spray and atomize fuel into usable smaller droplets… more so to empower more efficiently than a sinful carburetor can ever run.

 Smaller, but finely-tuned droplets of Law and Gospel in our Lord’s message can expose our sinfulness like a heated intake valve surface breaks up those fine fuel droplets. Sins vaporize quickly. Sure, some dirty fuel droplets are still there… but now in the Gospel they’ve been correctly vaporized and are put to good use.

 Within an injected engine, since the engine’s intake valve port area runs quite hot… hot as the demons of hell… and there's normally only one quick, gentle turn from port-to-cylinder… during this redirection true repentance occurs. Our human sin… like droplets of fuel... eventually becomes smoked by the Holy Spirit. If the Spirit has its way with us, we get forgiven and saved

from our sin. We become used by God, like a restored older car.

 Remember! The Good News’ of Jesus’ crucifixion and Resurrection, our wonderfully Divine injector Spirit… has increased our turbulence on earth into a far more perfect mix. Distribution of that forgiveness depends only on the accuracy of the Church. The Father used Jesus’ perfect salvation calibration and the Holy Spirit’s precise distribution method saves us. Consequently, the Church today is called to be like a modern fuel injection manifold. To be efficient, we must be ram-air tuned. We need to flow cool, dense Holy Spirit air!

 This Holy Spirit air makes us evangelically powerful. This is the best kind of spirit for Church growth. Then the fuel of Christ’s  blood given in the meal of thanksgiving feeds power into the mix.

 So you see though first a mechanic, but now called as a minister… this fuel chemistry sounds like heaven to me. Since the efficient flames of the Spirit makes for the possibilities of great heavenly power loosened, I wonder how long we wrench twisters can stay lukewarm. How can we get completely get used up as Christians in determining how well any congregation shall be carried into the future. Remember… all depends on how we, according to the guidance of God... design the Gospel carrying machinery to fit the task. I ask you seriously to consider your Church evangelism plans and then answer this… “Have you ever ridden in a light-weight, fuel-injected dragster?”

 

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