The Rhino

This is a passage from The Barbarian Way, written by Erwin McManus...

But my favorite of all is the group designation for rhinos. You see, rhinos can run thirty miles an hour, which is pretty fast if you consider how much weight they're pulling...just one problem with the phenomenon. Rhinos can see only thirty feet in front of them. can you imagine something that large moving in concert as a group, plowing ahead at thirty miles an hour with no idea what's at thirty one feet? You would think that they would be far too timid to pick up full steam, that their inability to see far enough ahead would paralyze them to immobility. But with that horn pointing the way, rhinos run forwarrd full steam ahead without apprehension, which leads us to their name.

Rhinos moving together at full speed are known as a crash. Even when they're just hanging around enjoying the watershed, they're called a crash because of their potential. You've got to love that. I think that's what we're supposed to be. The church should be a crash. We should become an unstoppable force. We don't have to pretend to know the future. Who cares that we can see only thirty feet ahead? Whatever's thirty one feet ahead needs to care that we're coming and better get out of the way.

We need to move together as God's people and become the human version of the rhino crash. We may not be able to see what's at thrity one feet, but we don't have to be blind to what's right in front of us... The future is uncertain, but we need to move toward it with confidence. There's a future to be created, humanity to be liberated. we need to stop wasting our time and stop being afraid of what we cannot see and do not know. We need to move foward full force because of what we do know."

-Erwin McManus

What a great picture of what the church should be.  It doesn't matter what's at 31 feet ... or 5 years into the future ... what matters is what's here and now ... we are God's people and we need to be working together to accomplish the work that He has given us.  I hope that you choose to be part of a crash and not apprehensive about what the future might hold!  God has that all figured out!