This week in class we talked about covenant.
To be honest I didn’t have much of a reference point myself on what “covenant living” looks like. In our world the most obvious form of covenant is the covenant of marriage which rarely lives up to the terms promised on the day you decide to ask for his and her bath robes and a toaster.
So you can imagine it was a lot to wrap my mind around (in a good way).
I’ve learned so much since being here in Spain…so much about who I am and honestly reevaluating what I stand for. Learning how to focus my passions and (outrage) in a way that brings change. Learning why it is I just want to love people. In turn learning that it is a good thing.
I have so many new, deeper thoughts on just how christianity turned out the way it looks today in the church . I don’t believe it looks, smells, tastes the way God intended….there needs to be more love less doubt more freedom less regulation more voice less silence.
I believe the days are coming that are of love and violence….yes. I said violence.
There needs to be people willing to stand up for the things the bible promises….you know the whole His glory will fill the earth…that wasn’t just a poetic thing to shove in there. I know the earth will be filled with glory with goodness with love. This means we “the church” need to be fighters. Fighters of injustice. Someone needs to stand up and fight for the women and children who are sold and traded into the sex industry, someone needs to do something for those child soldiers in the LRA, someone needs to LOVE their neighbor.
Of course I do not say these things blaming the church or even saying that I could fix it all….just a few things to think about. We need some fierce people to rise up and make a change in this world….being a christian is not a passive mousey thing it means you have something and someone to fight for.
So let your yes be yes and your no be no.
