Finding Out God's Will: A Scarey Notion

Three women sat in car outside of a 7-11 on Eastwood and 435. They were handing out pamphlets and I got super excited to share with my fellow evangelists for a time of spiritual uplifting.
"Do you know about Jesus Christ?" She asked me? "Here's literature for you." She stuck her hand out of the window before I could answer the question.
I reached for the pamphlet and immediately recognized it. Recognizing the title of the work I quickly said, "Absolutely not!" It was from a faith different from sound Biblical doctrine.

Francis Chan

For the next 30 minutes I engaged in a deep conversation about how they are completely offensive to me and the Jesus of the Bible. The words of Francis Chan kept coming to me as I was seeking to demonstrate - in love and grace - how the Jesus they represent is not the Jesus I worship.
Let me say this without "plagiarizing" Mr. Chan but retelling my conversation with these ladies, I don't know much about engaging other religions and I seek not to cause arguments or create an enemy out of a fellow human being. So I use the best pastoral examples to engage conversations in a "woman at the well-esque" way.
I followed up my conversation with these women by saying, "You cannot possibly read this Bible, even the one you're holding, and come to the conclusion that Jesus is anything other than God in the flesh, deity meeting humanity, the sovereign coming to earth.You get it not because you have come to that conclusion on your own but rather because someone else told you that was the way to think!"
My question is the same that Mr. Chan asks, "What is it that I believe that someone else told me too but I can't find in Scripture?"
I was telling my testimony to a new friend the other day (an exhausting endeavor I must say!) and reliving how we acted in prison towards one another. We shared everything. I'm not kidding. We would share food, clothes, books, money, and even underwear! Okay, so that last one isn't true but I would if a brother asked for my chonies. But nothing was ours that wasn't each others.
Now coming out I'm baffled by the separation of church members. I'm baffled by how we are so distant from the people in our churches and so distant from our fellow professing believers. I'm sitting here at the mission looking at tons of believers that will go through the day wondering if they'll make it back to the mission in time for a meal; in time for a bed to sleep in safely from the cold and crime of the streets.

Some Random Church

It was saddened the other day when I went to a church. I had to push a button fourteen times there attached to the wall by the door before finally getting an answer. "Can I help you?" They asked as if I were pulling into a drive-through ordering fries.
"Can I talk to someone?" I asked half laughing half getting ticked off.
"What can I help you with?"
"I would like to talk to someone physically." I asked and asked again four more times.
It was a weird moment. Here I was at a Christ professing church and yet no one was there to meet me without, what seemed like, me giving a special code word. Is this a representation of the church in Scripture? A fortress type building there to blockade itself in rather than seek to transform from without? Shouldn't a church be about opening its doors and allowing anyone one in at anytime? Why are bars open more hours than our church???!!!

Our Savior was never too busy to lift the needy

I wonder, what if I read the Bible and sought to live out what I read? What if I stopped looking at the culture around me and started to live like a...Christian? What would that look like and more importantly what would I have to give up? Better yet, What would I have to do?
Finding out God's will, as Mr. Chan says, is a scarey notion. Yet it's what we're called to seek out before anything else. God's will first is for you to have a relationship with him and second for you to lay down your life for others. Does that match up with your church's culture or mission? Does that match up with what you're seeking in your walk with God?