Smells Like Angel Spirit?

When the angels showed up on the scene just outside Bethlehem, they didn’t sing about themselves.

This wasn’t their song:

With big stars out, it’s less dangerous

Here we are now, lots of angels

Watch us flutter, see our halos

Here we are now, your entertainers

Nope.

Their anthem wasn’t about themselves.

They sang praise to the Savior.

Same thing—later on in the book of Revelation…

The anthem of the angels (and all the people too) was one of praise to the Savior.

I think this is a good reminder for the church.

The church isn’t the Savior.

The church doesn’t save. The church doesn’t redeem. And the church doesn’t make all things new…

That’s the work of our Savior.

Sure, the Savior uses the church—we’re His instrument.

But a church without the Savior is nothing.

A church without the Savior has no song, no anthem.

Our anthem isn’t to ourselves or for ourselves.

Our anthem is to Him, for Him, and all about Him.

Sometimes our church slogans, advertising, marketing, branding, talking, bragging, singing—our anthem—becomes more about us than it is about the Savior. And that’s messed up.

We need to be reminded of how angels sing…

What angels sing.

Why angels sing.

Who angels sing to, and for, and about.

‘Cause that’s our anthem too.