Day 43 and just listening to We Are The World 25 Haiti as wait for the Opening Ceremony of the 21st Winter Olympics Games in Vancouver -sorry guys nowhere as good as the original. Great idea, great cause - just a weak recording 25 years on.
Maybe it's my warped imagination, but as I listened and watched the recording I wondered what sort of 'ego' issues the producers had to work with when they chose who got the main mics and who didn't.
Or ...were ego's forgotten for the greater cause?? Hopefully.
It's a great song, with a great theology. We ARE the world. Maybe the tragedy of Haiti will help us get this theology.
The Scripture's "earth God gave to man".
We ARE the world.
Often only at disasters do we get this. We live in/on our islands. We are about our interest and our little kingdoms, but when something awful hits our world - something is triggered within all of us ....all men created equal; all of us belonging together; all of us and all of us together ARE the world.
While the world often misses this truth - the Church can completely miss this truth.
Either through an isolationist or escapist philosophy that separates us from the world; or an elitist pride that separates us from our world - but for decades the Church has missed the truth that we ARE the world.
Verses like "in the world but not of it" have been preached to emphasize our apartness from the rest of the world.
But sometimes our ecclesiology can shrink our anthropology. Undoubtedly something new has happened to people who have trusted Christ and entered the new humanity - but - something remains ......the world and everyone in such are not only our neighbors, but together we ARE the world.
Read the Psalms ..... we remain connected with the rest of this world. We ARE the world.
......but this blog is not about theology. sorry folks got to let this thought slide for your own reflection.
Intentional follow of Jesus today:
Let others go ahead of me in Subway.
Talked with a friend in Guatemala about the Kingdom of God ...and prayed for them.
Prayed for Serina and her healing.
Asked someone to give to help the children of the world via www.whenigrowup-global.com
Looked around me today at strangers, but fellow citizens of our world, and prayed for their souls to know the risen Christ.
Went home to be with my wife.
Yep ......simple, but intentional.
Yep ....still thinking about the theology I began to discuss above and about to log off and keep mulling it over as I watch nation after nation parade at the Opening Ceremony. Stirs me everytime.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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