I have a confession to make…

This is a pictures of a real sign posted outside of a restaurant here in town.  I took it.  I am blogging about this only
to show that injustice is very real, and is something to be raged
against.  I know some of the street kids that this sign references and I
happen to think they are good boys who deserve a chance.  God had
created us ALL and His son has died for us ALL.  Not just the rich not
just the neat or well mannered, the poor and the messy and those of us
who may be a bit more difficult to handle.  He has given all of us a
chance and no one has any right to take that away from anyone.  It is
not my place or the place of the people who made this signs place to
define what “productive useful citizen” even is.  Rather than not giving
the poor food or money, and rather than giving them food or money think
to talk to them.  Give of our time and of our spirits, as God fills us
let us pour back on people.  Learn their stories and about their lives,
their needs and then pray about how we can meet those needs.  It is easy
to throw bread and money at people.  I am learning to throw my heart
and soul. 

 

 

 

“Jesus stood and said”If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me
and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of
living water will flow from within him.” “  
~John 7:37-38

 

“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.