The more I read this book, The Irresistible Revolution, the farther my brain stretches. Not in a bad way, I love the thought provoking questions and statements that Shane makes, but I will admit...headaches usually occur. The whole concept is a new, radical way of loving and bringing "up there down here". If you've been around GCC for more then a week, then you've heard that line.Scottie and I had a night off a couple of days ago and just chilled at Java. We dreamed about our future and talked about love. The church's perspective of love, the world's take on love, and Shane's idea of love. My brain started to do it's thing (hurt) and something came to me. Why is it so hard to convince people that love is the answer? It seems like a no brainer to so many of us, yet it's a concept that most of the world just can't wrap their head around. Radio stations tell you music is the fix, movies provoke violence mixed with artificial affection, but they all have something in common. They promise results. If you kill the bad guy, you'll win the war...if you love the girl, you'll get the kiss. It makes it a little hard to advertise an unconditional kind of love to a world that can't see the outcome.
It's no secret that Christians have developed an amazingly horrible name for themselves and avoiding "love" at all costs seems to be their motto. So how do we get across that it isn't even the outcome that we're striving for at all? It's the action. Bottom line: the point of loving your neighbor as yourself is not to create a perfect heaven here on earth, (we all know that won't happen until "J" returns again) but to simply love. And by simply loving unconditionally, the satisfaction and joy will set in. Isn't that what they're all searching for anyways? So the goal is not to create a world of love, it is only to love. To not bring all of heaven down here, but infect the world with as many little pieces of it as we can. It's about as hard as selling an invisible Savior to a world addicted to "touch". So love. It's not the outcome...it's the action.
It's no secret that Christians have developed an amazingly horrible name for themselves and avoiding "love" at all costs seems to be their motto. So how do we get across that it isn't even the outcome that we're striving for at all? It's the action. Bottom line: the point of loving your neighbor as yourself is not to create a perfect heaven here on earth, (we all know that won't happen until "J" returns again) but to simply love. And by simply loving unconditionally, the satisfaction and joy will set in. Isn't that what they're all searching for anyways? So the goal is not to create a world of love, it is only to love. To not bring all of heaven down here, but infect the world with as many little pieces of it as we can. It's about as hard as selling an invisible Savior to a world addicted to "touch". So love. It's not the outcome...it's the action.
3 comments:
Very good. Don't worry...it makes sense. I'm a fan.
As I look into the eyes of my child and read the words of his heart, I wonder where is God leading him? And my heart soars, because I know wherever it is...it will be an adventure!
Life is a blessing, what a priviledge it is to be a part of and watch yours!
I like your thought's Mike
Zach McFarland
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