Recklessness and Holy Rage
What therefore is the task of the preacher(or the church) today?
Shall I answer: “Faith, hope and love?”
That sounds beautiful.
But I would say- Courage.
No, that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth.
Our task is recklessness.
For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature,
we lack a holy rage.
The recklessness that comes from the knowledge of God and humanity.
The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets…
and when the lie rages against the ravaging of God’s earth,
and the destruction of God’s world.
To rage when little children must die of hunger,
when the tables of the rich are sagging with food.
To rage at the senselessness of killing so many,
and against the madness of militaries.
To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction- Peace.
To rage against complacency.
To restlessly seek recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms with the norms of the Kingdom of God.
And remember the signs of the church have always been-
the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish… but never the chameleon.
By: Kaj Munk
