Wise Words for Today
April 30, 2008 by Mick Turner
No longer can we afford to stand on the cliffs high above the cultural mudslide, chastising people for not climbing out of the mess to come up to higher ground. No longer can we feel content throwing our heroic lifelines of propositions intended to save. No longer can we idly sit by, bemoaning change and wishing to turn to clock back to nostalgic days gone by.
No, it’s time for Christian leaders, tethered to the lifeline of God’s Spirit and community of faith, to gather up courage and plunge into the swirling mess of cultural flow. Just as Paul said he did in Corinth, we too must “try to find common ground with everyone so that [we] might bring them to Christ.” We must emulate the God who dove right into the sewer of life himself in the body of Jesus. And we must awaken his dream - God’s dream of swimming this rescue mission on earth through a new Body - the Body of his Church - Christ’s Body re-presented…..This must be the first priority for leadership in a post-Christian world: making the invisible Body visible.
John Burke
(from No Perfect People Allowed)
