Today in America, we have lists and formulas for everything from losing weight, to making billions online, or how to lose a guy in 10 days. I feel like we have put these lists, formulas, and 3 step solutions into our bibles. Some people view the bible as a answer booklet, a self help guide, or even a long boring note.
To me a Bible is this:
A letter that explains God's love. It explains its history, its present, and its future. It describes a beautiful movement, that can pass us by. It gives, not an exclusive, but a very open invitation to join this love movement. This is our call, if we choose to accept it.
This outlook causes many response into our brain, such as What are we to do in this movement?How do we join this movement? And what does this movement want to achieve?
To join, we must die. Jesus said better love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for a Friend. We must also pick up our cross and follow him.
We must crucify ourselves.
When we take communion, we do just that, we wish for his body and blood upon us.
We must submit to his will.
We must, as a generation, a movement, change the world, not by politics, war, doomsday prophecies, or even with reason,
but with LOVE
love invokes two closely tied events:
Passion and Worship
When we do these things, when we have love, passion, and Worship
we ARE the movement
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