Friday, July 18, 2008

• Go ahead, take the easy road...

  Currently Listening Ultimate Collection (CD & DVD) By Keith Green see related

  So you’re not called. I understand - a life of comfort and ease seeking your own ends is way, well, how do I put this? Easier… I’m sure Jesus will understand. I mean, when He said “Go into all the world and tell the good news about me to everyone”, I’m sure that he meant to give you an exception. And when He said “Follow me”, I’m sure it didn’t apply to you. Never mind the starving kids in India, they probably deserve to die without ever hearing about Jesus. Never mind all that “forsake it all and take up your cross” business. That’s probably just for saints, preachers, and super-spiritual people like Levi the tax collector, Peter, James, and John the fishermen, or Simon the insurgent revolutionary.

  Yeah, I’m sure that Jesus meant to make an exception for well dressed, spoiled, rich disobedient children. Don’t worry about it, just lay back and go to sleep in your little insulated church-bubble world. Let the nations go to hell instead of coming to Christ. I’m sure God never meant for it to cost us anything to follow Jesus. So go ahead, tune out the cries of the poor and oppressed, the sick and the broken, the lost and the demon-possessed. Crank the “positive, encouraging” music and hide in the ease of the American dream.

  Because it would just be too much trouble for you to help them. I’m sure if you wear Christian T-shirt, slap a “K-LOVE: sticker on your car, and make sure you show up at that “christian” country club that calls itself a church and meets every Sunday morning, the “King of Kings and “Lord of Lords” will totally understand. You better hope He does...

   

  
  God's Spirit is on me;
  he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to
  the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and
  recovery of sight to the blind,

  To set the burdened and battered free,
  to announce, "This is God's year to act!"

  - Jesus

  “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”

  -John

  “But woe to you who are rich,
  for you have already received your comfort.
  Woe to you who are well fed now,
  for you will go hungry.
  Woe to you who laugh now,
  for you will mourn and weep.
  Woe to you when all men speak well of you,
  for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.”

  -Jesus

   

   

   

   

   

   

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