I am passionate about Christian authenticity. As Michael W Smith said: "If the church was doing it's job, there would be no poverty", and I agree 100%. It's mission in everyday life - where you live, where you go out, with friends and with strangers.
There IS enough to go around - we need to be the example when it comes to God's provision through His people. I hope I can provide one day even more than what has been provided for me. And that's been a LOT!
George McLeod has this to say:
I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church.
I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage heap, at a crossroad so cosmopolitan they had to write his title in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
It was the kind of place where cynics talk smut, thieves curse, and soldiers gamble.
That’s where he died.
And that’s where Christians ought to be and what Christians ought to be about.
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