How one of the most devout young men I know is finding Jesus, again.

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This was written by Jesse. Read back in his blog and you'll see he's harder core than you, than me, than our local mega church... and look at how he despises that. He considers it nothing, compared to JESUS.

He lost Jesus: his focus. His center... He was myopic. He was blind...

prayerless
loveless
full of evil...

this describes me
and this describes our times.

and the only way out is to do what Jesse is doing: GET OUT.

Look at him. he did what Jesus said: sell all, give away, come, follow...
look at that.
there's a guy who actually TRIED it.

who's next?
Who'll be the next person to join the throng of those who cast it all down to follow, to wallow, to worship at the feet of Jesus?
honestly, all our religion is so disingenuous to the world's eyes. We deny christ in our constant affluence.
we deny him by letting each other be poor.
if, just in the church, we started to do what Jesus said-just to our brothers and sisters...

like Zach's blog has posted a couple times: Let's agree to just not kill one another--let the christians of the world just stop killing each other... just that...

or let's stop picking our neighborhood by its safety and schools. Lets pick it by the probability that loving our neighbor will destroy darkness.

Who is moving to Mississippi this year?
who is moving to Louisiana this yera?
Who is going to go to kolkata? that's where the americans go to get deloused, spiritually. Mama T's ghost roams the dorms there, speaking her sweet history of abandonment to Jesus into the ears of sleeping CEO's.

If you're going to LIVE for Jesus, please let me know. It gets lonely hearing and speaking like this. It gets lonely knowing this. It gets lonely seeing people smile and nod, glazing over when the "rhetoric" gets too deep for them.

Who is moving to a troubled neighborhood?
who is going to neighbor up with Rick and Jackie? Lord knows they're too overwhelmed working in the church for peanuts (a crime-for shame to be that way) that they can hardly make it 3 hoods over to us for prayer adn fellowship.
they need the church to come to them.

how much of this whole thing is just jockeying for comfort and self-affirmation?

to worship in song, get in our lexus, drive home to a 200 thousand dollar mortgage and a 1000 dollar lawnmower... on a street of a hundred such lives... completely unconnected in any true way...

is this somehow acceptable?
where's the mourning over this?
there's barely a soft questioning of it.
what about Jesus?
didn't we have to push Him aside a long time ago to wind up here?
Let's be honest and get on our faces and beg him back into the house.