We have never really considered ourselves missionaries to the poor. Jesus was not simply a missionary to the poor. He was poor --born a baby refugee from the badlands of Nazareth, wandered the world a homeless rabbi, died the rotten death of insurrectionists and bandits on the cross, executed by an oppresive empire, buried in a borrowed tomb. Jesus was crucified not for helping poor people but for joinng them. That is the Jesus we follow.
Perhaps this statement speaks to the state of the church in the United States of America. We spend more time trying to impress than invest ...we are more consumed with convenience than conviction ... more ready to be recognized than to reclaim. There are poor, hurting, abused, lonely, dejected people all around us that need to be loved by the church. Living a Christlike life in our world should not define us as a radical, yet that is how the "on fire" believer is identified. Let's be Ordinary Radicals.
Stay off the paved road ...Craig
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