| . . .new board... same mountain..
Guess who I saw at Big Bear...
that's impossible.. no.. that's Incredible... =P
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| sometimes it's not about trying harder... but allowing Him to change you..
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| it's been a while.. and rather than make up something profound to post for you guys.. i'm tired and havn't had a good night of sleep in 3 weeks and counting... I thought I'd share some wisdom from the Doctor.... MR. FRIDAY.....SUNDAY"S A COMING Campolo.. He's so freakin' refreshing..
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I ask my students why Jesus came into the world and I typically get answers like this:
- to seek and to save the lost
- to reveal God to us
- to provide us with a model for being fully human
- to defeat the demonic spirits of this world
Good answers, all of them. but I seldom hear a student repeat the mission statement that Jesus himself gave us. In the three synoptic Gospels, Jesus tells us that he has come first and foremost to decalre that the kingdom of God is at hand. Many of his parables were about this kingdom: God's kingdom could be likened to a good seed that a farmer sows into the ground, Jesus pointed out, or to a mustard seed, or to a treasure buried in a field. With such analogies Jesus tried to convey to his disciples some understanding of the nature of his kingdom.
And God wants this kingdom to become established on earth, now! "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven," Jesus taught his disciples to pray (Matt 6:10). Which, of course, contradicts what both evangelicals and neo-Marxists believe about Christianity being an otherworldly, pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die religion that promises us mansions in the next world if only we endure the oppressions, inequities, and injustices of the present socioeconomic order.
God's kingdom is a new society that Jesus wants to create in this world -- within human history, not after the Second Coming or a future apocalypse or anything else. But right now.
Here are a few qualities of the Kingdom of God as described in Isaiah 65:17-25.
- Its coming will abolish all suffering
- There will be an end to the infant mortality that is now so common among the poor
- The elderly will live out their lives in good health
- People will have decent housing that they can call their own
- Everyone will have a job that pays to each a fair wage
- Mothers will not worry when their children are born that they will be destroyed by drugs or blown away in gang warefare
- The ecological balance of Eden will be restored and environmental destruction will come to an end.
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and what do ya know.. i'm not finishing this until.. some other time... hahaha..
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