Have you seen this person?

"Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you’ve done it to me. And this is what I’ve come to think. That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they’re just wrong. They’re not bad, they’re just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in a beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken." —Rich Mullins




Before I write more, know that this blog comes from a loving heart, and is in no way made to offend people. Rather it is written to make you think, maybe feel a little uncomfortable but more than this, to make you aware that being too comfortable is a common disease but that it can be cured.

Our culture is one of complacency, one of "first in and first out", a "fast food" mentality that speaks of our needs, our wants, our desires, what we believe we deserve, we have worked for, the promotion we should have had, the house that we just cant afford due to the extras we really don't need, the perfect idea of what life should look like. The "all about me" mentality is putrid, has a pungent smell to the nostrils and wants others to recognise it as something that is okay. Well let me tell our culture....this is not okay. In fact is shockingly wrong, and it scares me to be made aware of this.




What are we doing as people, as people who do not believe in God, and especially people who do believe in God. The Christians who need to be showing the rest of the world what should be doing, what God made us to do. "Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you’ve done it to me. And this is what I’ve come to think. That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor." If we really believe in the teachings about God, in what Jesus did while on earth and with the mandate that he left to us just before He left the disciples....then why does our couch know us more than the people outside of lazy boy? I am not exempt in this one either. It is too easy to fall into complacency and closing off the dirty, feely, unwashed, uncomfortable things we are called to do.

Let me tell you; these things are not going to stop. They will just continue to keep on growing. Yes, I am not saying we cannot have the right jobs, houses etc. but it is what we do with it is what makes us a people of God. It is what we do with our lives, the giftings we have, financially to giving time to talking truth into people's life, offering hope in just being there with someone, taking time to create a work opportunity for people, visiting people in homes where they need a word of peace....how much longer must we ignore the cries of injustice, pain, minorities, broken homes, human traffiking, children losing their childhoods every day, families in finanacial need for basic survival. We as Christians need to heeding our 2nd reason for being on earth - loving our neighbours as we love ourselves. Tough? Ridiculous thinking? Revival? Revolutionary? Good - because this is what we have been called to. In the Bible it speaks about if we do not praise God, then the rocks themselves will cry out. Worship is not just about singing songs to God; in fact that is a minor part of what Worship really is. Worship is living our lives in every facet in what God has made us to be; to hear Him call us and we follow with God's call and passion written all over us.

This is what God is calling us into. And if we beleive this; then getting off the couch should be slightly easier. If not with a little trepadation, but with a heart to follow His footsteps that He walked thousands of years ago where people touched his heart to a point of breaking for them.



"Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken."