Day 173
As I begin reading for the final preach on The Star, The Cross & The Crescent I want to handle the topic of how you hold Jesus as unique yet without the arrogance of truth.
Been reading Hunter's book "To Change The World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility Of Christianity In The Late Modern World" (referenced it on my leadership blog as the must read of the summer).
Hunter writes these words:
"The significance of every person before God irrespective of worldly stature or accomplishment and the care for the least are the ethical hallmarks of Christianity, for they mark every human being and every human life in the most practical ways with God's image and therefore worthy of respect and love. Without these, Christianity is a brutalizing ideology........So far as I can tell, elitism for believers is despicable and utterly anathema to the gospel they cherish."
WOW!
The disturbing profoundness and thorough practicalness of this statement stirs me, shakes me.
This series has only more reaffirmed my belief in the church being the hope of the world - but when it gets it wrong ....being the scourge of the world.
Our church staff have been reiterating among ourselves the core characteristic of humility.
If we can humbly hold a humble Christ -what possibilities.
Today's intentional follow .....humble surrender to anothers diagnosis.
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