This Sunday, we finish our 3-week journey through the core mission of our worship. We welcome everyone. We share Christ. And we change--ourselves and the world.
As I have been getting ready for Sunday, I've been moved by Martin Luther King, Jr's sermon on one of the scripture passages we're using this week, Romans 12:1-8. In "Transformed Nonconformist" (which, incidentally, is available here on Google Books, as chapter 3 of a sermon collection), MLK calls us to live lives intentionally out-of-step with the majority in our world, and in-step with the amazing work of God's kingdom, which is coming into our world.
Jesus was always doing that kind of thing--catching people off-guard with his new way of life. Fighting against expectations and powers, he carves out a new way of living. And dying.
Which means this "change" we're called to is also a kind of challenge--a challenge against to status quo and for a new way of living.
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Why does the triple evil of "poverty, racism, and war" continue to be beaten into American culture each day via corporate media? Why not look through the eyes of a child; question/seek the truth amongst the misleading headlines; be out of step a little each day?... Fred
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