A Homeless Man
I know I do not have that many avid readers out there, but I was late on my post due to internet difficulties. Enjoy!
The hope of the world rested on a homeless man. The universal encounter one exhibits during a conversion experience with Jesus Christ rests solely on a man that did not have a home. What if Jesus had a home? What if He approached life between the four interior walls of a decorated house? Countless Christians do not even consider what is at stake in the various texts supporting that the Messiah was homeless.
When we walk past a homeless man in need of some money or food on the streets of Indianapolis, we shrug our shoulders and pretend that we did not see him crying for help. When followers of Christ walk past a child with a cup in his right hand clanging the coins loud enough so they can get attention from bystanders. Consequently, this issue has not been confronted. The tactics of ignoring a woman in a rusty wheel-chair who sings songs that no person can understand has the universal saying; "I Don’t Care About You." What kind of message are we baring when our faith walks the other way to people in need?
They murmur, "she must have pissed away her life with booze and drugs." Deep down in her soul, down where no one can see, there is an image that transcends all. A beautiful creation that has purpose and conventional value waiting to be unleashed by the power of God. Can Christians allow themselves to enter into his/her world? Unforeseen things can happen. One of the risks is running the possibility of being viewed by one’s friend with suspicion or distrust. Another is to find oneself asking questions, perhaps only inwardly, about what one’s own faith really means.
The radical partnership we have in God demands us to partake in their world. Millions of people die of starvation each week, but we are worried about what reality TV has to offer us or who is going to get kicked off American Idol next. The reality is there is a world dying; what are you going to do about it?
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The hope of the world rested on a homeless man. The universal encounter one exhibits during a conversion experience with Jesus Christ rests solely on a man that did not have a home. What if Jesus had a home? What if He approached life between the four interior walls of a decorated house? Countless Christians do not even consider what is at stake in the various texts supporting that the Messiah was homeless.
When we walk past a homeless man in need of some money or food on the streets of Indianapolis, we shrug our shoulders and pretend that we did not see him crying for help. When followers of Christ walk past a child with a cup in his right hand clanging the coins loud enough so they can get attention from bystanders. Consequently, this issue has not been confronted. The tactics of ignoring a woman in a rusty wheel-chair who sings songs that no person can understand has the universal saying; "I Don’t Care About You." What kind of message are we baring when our faith walks the other way to people in need?
They murmur, "she must have pissed away her life with booze and drugs." Deep down in her soul, down where no one can see, there is an image that transcends all. A beautiful creation that has purpose and conventional value waiting to be unleashed by the power of God. Can Christians allow themselves to enter into his/her world? Unforeseen things can happen. One of the risks is running the possibility of being viewed by one’s friend with suspicion or distrust. Another is to find oneself asking questions, perhaps only inwardly, about what one’s own faith really means.
The radical partnership we have in God demands us to partake in their world. Millions of people die of starvation each week, but we are worried about what reality TV has to offer us or who is going to get kicked off American Idol next. The reality is there is a world dying; what are you going to do about it?
Paid in Full
