Plundering the Cause

A pastor I like a lot asked a question the other day in an interview, “What do you do when your institution is known for a bunch of things that you don’t want to be known for?”

The Christian faith is one established on Love of God and others. Why then is Christianity in America viewed as?

• Unforgiving
• Hypocritical
• Homophobic
• Fear mongering
• Consumerism
• Bigotry

Because of or in spite of these stereotypes a new Christianity, or should I say an old Christianity, is emerging. A people seeking to reestablish the authority of the Church not through power or riches but by joining the God of the oppressed, joining those on the other side of power. I heard it described like a Eucharist (the act of communion) that we will be broken and poured out in love simply because Jesus said so.


The second most famous Buddhist in the world is Richard Gere, second to the Dalai Lama, said about a year ago, “I keep having this image that Jesus Christ is here and now among us and he is watching what is being done and he is appalled.”

With every action we are communicating whether or not we believe the tomb is empty.
The resurrection is a way of life.

May we proclaim this truth with every word and every deed.

Truth.

“The Kingdom of God is truth and it plunders any cause. Truth belongs to God. The Kingdom of God is anywhere the rule and reign of God is expanding on earth. Embrace the Kingdom.”



I miss my friends tonight. I wish I were at that coffee shop on Inman Street sitting with them. It isn’t possible today and that will have to be ok for right now. But until then I will dream that we are together tonight. I am proud of them.