“What does it look like for us to break ourselves open and pour ourselves out for the healing of these people in this time and this place?”
–Rob Bell, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, 158
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How does it look? It looks like the capture, arrest, and deportation of all undocumented people. Let the healing begin.
You lost me on that one Rick….sorry.
It looks like humanism; for there is nothing in us save Christ that can do what Bell suggests. The only hope for this world is Jesus Christ.
And the Church on the earth is the only Christ the world will see. We are His body after all. What Christ does on earth, He does through us, His body. Salvation is what happens when partake of Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection. It’s only then that we can live as the new creation we are intended to be – for the sake of the world.
What does it look like when you start setting yourself in opposition to Scripture (and/or state total non sequiturs) just because of your animosity toward the source?
What does it look like when you can’t grasp the idea of One Line ?
Another time when something was broken and poured out, and was criticized:
Mark 14:3-5 : And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves, and said, “Why was this fragrant oil wasted? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the Bullhorn Fund.” And they criticized her sharply.
Several years ago (Joe should remember) I attended a conference at Mars Hill called “Isn’t She Beautiful?” And Rob did an awesome lesson on believers being the Eucharist, being broken and poured out for the world. I need to go find those notes. Good stuff.
i agree with pastorboy. we are not to be in the business of healing, we are to be about the business of making converts. look at the example of jesus he spent all his time railing against sinners and no time healing the sick… uh wait… never mind…
Nathanael, I think he also talks about that in Jesus Wants to Save Christians. jerry
You guys, John Chisham is 100% right. Rob is nothing but a humanist. Good deeds? What does that matter? I mean it’s not in Ephesians or the Bible anywhere.
#2 – I used sarcasm to point out what I consider the paradoxical hypocrisy between being a living sacrifice for the needy and energetically espousing the arrest of the undocumented needy.