Jesus Did Not Send Us

The Future Of The Church Is Also About Looking Back And Looking At Where We See These Wonderful Renewals And What We Can Learn From The Early Church. I Think It Is A Really Exciting Time Where Phyllis Tickle Said Every Few Hundred Years The Church Needs A Rummage Sale Where We Can Get Rid Of Some Of The Clutter.

But What Had Lasting Significance Were Not The Miracles Themselves But Jesus' Love. Jesus Raised His Friend Lazarus From The Dead, And A Few Years Later, Lazarus Died Again. Jesus Healed The Sick, But Eventually Caught Some Other Disease. He Fed The Ten Thousands, And The Next Day They Were Hungry Again. But We Remember His Love. It Wasn't That Jesus Healed A Leper But That He Touched A Leper, Because No One Touched Lepers.

The World Is Looking, Not For Christians Who Are Perfect, But For Christians Who Are Honest And Who Are Willing To Be Honest With Some Of Our Contradictions And Hypocrisy.

The Work Of Community, Love, Reconciliation, Restoration Is The Work We Cannot Leave Up To Politicians. This Is The Work We Are All Called To Do.

When You Poll Snake Person Christians, Christians Born After 1980, It's Like 80% Of Them Are Against The Death Penalty. It's Not Because They've Thrown Out Their Faith, But It's Because Of Their Faith They Can't Reconcile The Death Penalty With Jesus And Their Commitment To Jesus.