This kind of Christianity.
I don’t want a kind that always asks what you can and can’t do.
A kind that thinks it has to fit into a culture.
A kind that builds itself according to a denomination.
A kind that judges because it’s scared.
A kind that ignores the radical person of Jesus and plays safe.
A kind that settles for less, not being the very best it can be,
And instead turning into a corny goody goody thing.
A kind that says ‘us and them’ and not the kind that says ‘we’
That is not the Christianity I want to see.
Christianity means ‘Christ-ones’ or ‘little Christ’s’ because the original aim of Peter and the Church (people who decided to follow Jesus) was to follow through with what Jesus had done.
To keep being radical,
To keep turning things upside down,
To keep exploring and creating,
To keep learning about their heavenly Dad.
To grow from strange acquaintance, to intimate friend. Not settling.
Not becoming this boring irrelevant thing that people started to refer to as religion. It became that because people wanted to put God in a box, they wanted to be able to comprehend what just couldn’t be comprehended by our human minds. Choosing to believe what really wasn’t true, switching scripture around to make it suitable for understanding. These rituals in religion aren’t what you live for, it just refreshes you, it’s what you’re already doing in your relationship with God, that this ‘ritual’ can simply remind you and once again refresh you and encourage you. It’s just symbolic; it’s not what you rely on as just another religious thing.
This Christianity I see goes exceedingly beyond that.
This Christianity I see…
Is free.
It’s the relationship we were all born for.
It’s living how you were created to live.
Living in restoration.
A kind that has fearless radicals.
A kind that love the untouchables.
A kind that constantly find ways to go above and beyond in caring for others, in pursuing what they believe – justice, mercy, unity, peace.
A kind that doesn’t care about opinions or criticisms or stereotypes.
A kind that never excludes but always reaches out.
A kind that has no limits because they’re holding the hand that created the universe.
The kind that says I really don’t care about what I can or can’t do, I just want to know my heavenly Dad even more everyday.
And whatever that requires I will lay down my life to do it.
All for the glory of God’s name.
This is Christianity. Red letter Christianity is a term I heard recently. This is what it was intended to be. A bunch of Jesus followers – just doing things differently.
Not about rules.
Not about religion.
Not about, who’s right and who’s wrong.
Not about, is it real or is it fake.
Not about ‘us and them’.
But about ‘We’.
Just about people and God.
Connecting.
Because God so loved the world…
We were created for this one relationship.
This one love.
this is amazing.
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