​89. The Only Thing That Matters

It’s like this:

You claim a progressive Christianity where love without truth reigns and acceptance of sin is the drug you drink until everybody’s dying of their own darkness.

OR

Following Jesus is a horrid game of Jumanji where all the rules and regulations barely make sense and you give a sneering side eye to those who aren’t fit for God’s love because only you fit the bill even though love is something you’ve never managed to understand in the first place.

How about INSTEAD:

We let God go free from the boxes we’ve kept Him in and understand what His Word is actually saying. That we never look at sin like it’s our identity (i.e. I was born angry, so I am a murderer; I was born with same sex attraction, so I am gay; I was born lustful, so I am an adulterer) but instead look at it for what it is: the evil our minds are called to turn away from to keep our eyes solely on Jesus. And with our eyes focused and our minds set, we go out and teach others about our God who bled and died for the evil seed planted and growing in our bellies, who cuts down our iniquities and asks us to reign with Him here where heaven meets earth. We clothe and feed and bring the bread of life and withstand all judgment because the world just doesn’t get it and never will.

But God knows we do, and that’s the only thing that matters.

Confession, repentance, true faith in Jesus, baptism in the name of the Trinity. Go forth and spread the great news!

The end.