A Big Bad Idea: 4

The real Jesus is no one to build a Mega-Church on.
for some of these guys, their job this year is to lose their jobs. Any one of them who embraces the REALITY of the teaching and person of Jesus will LOSE a LOT. Jesus isn't the Lord of the Successful. Mark that word. The keys to success hang on the same ring with the keys of death and hell. It's all going to end up in the lake.

Yes.
We WILL love our neighbors.
Yes.
we WILL feed the poor.
Yes.
we WILL take up the cause of the oppressed.
Yes.
we will speak out against injustice...

but those aren't our life.
those aren't our focus.
those aren't what we're paying attention to...
those aren't our goals...

We are captivated with the person who is named Jesus. A people of good works who are captivated by their Lord. We don't even pay attention to our accomplishments and our faithfulness. We are too busy worshipping in the dust at the feet of the master... We are too amazed to care about "reaching" anything. That is, anything but the hem of Jesus' cloak.

If we rise from that dust and sit back down in it to know our neighbor beggar, its because we have heard that he is Jesus, cloaked in skin, among us... like moths to flame...

big-program people will always marginalize this. It doesn't fit the boardroom. Its the material of clowns and fools. and it is what we're being called to.
so give up what's holding you back and hear this call and dump your life into the can and get on your face and follow Jesus.