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Last day before Spring Break / 03.17.10, 05:47 PM
For starters, sorry that I haven’t blogged in so long, hopefully this one makes up for it. I won’t be back up north for break, as I have an amazing chance here to host a mission trip with CSM along with Sean (one of my teammates)! I know my first mission trip was a huge life altering step for me and look forward to working with a bunch of 7th graders from Tulsa, OK.
Thank y’all so much for your continued support of this year, I honestly couldn’t do it without you behind me. Money wise at last check I was $825 away from the goal of $12,000, thanks so much for all the love over Valentine’s Day.
I just applied to a college, when I finally figure out what God has in store for me next I will update my blog so everyone can know.
The real reason I wanted to blog though was because of some comments that were made that have been tugging at my heart. If you haven’t been following the situation of which I’m speaking, let me recap it for you.
Glenn Beck of Fox News recently recommended that all Christians run away from their church if they hear social or economic justice in a sermon or see it on their churches web site. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html
Of course Jim Wallis had to chime in on the comment and he said the following. “What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show,” Mr. Wallis wrote on his blog, God’s Politics. “His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern.”
What should this mean to you? Here is what the Spirit is leading me to say.
I’ve seen the signs “keep Christ in Christmas” for a while now, how about we keep Christ in Christianity. I began thinking about this post earlier today to respond to Beck’s comments, but Wallis’ response was just as disappointing to me. Certainly what Beck said was off the mark, as Jesus Christ showed repeatedly throughout his life that he had a heart for the least of these. And the Hebrew word righteousness that is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible is most closely translated to justice. I am doing this Mission Year thing to show God’s love to people that don’t often receive it from “the church.” So we know that Beck is way off in his comments.
But, as I said Wallis’ response bothers me just as much. For one of the supposed leader of the Christian faith, he did little to emulate Jesus with his attack of Beck. In fact as I was researching the story I found a blog from a non-christian that I totally agree with. http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/politics/2010/03/12/jim-wallis-un-christian-response-to-glenn-beck/
I do a crappy job at it to, but please Christians lets try to walk that walk and not just talk that talk. What would Jesus say? He would probably be a little more graceful with Glen than Jim was. I just wanted to put it out there in case you didn’t know that as Christians everything we say and do is being judged by people that do not yet realize what Jesus did for them on that cross and then again three days after. The better we are at loving our neighbor the more people will see the attitude of Jesus Christ echoed in our lives.
Stu this is for you, Love Wins!
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