…to shame the wise. (1 Corinthians 1:27)
This from the Herald Sun of all places - “Taking Jesus as his word, what a radical idea”
“Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly something daring with your life,” he writes.
He quotes singer Rich Mullins, who died in a car accident 10 years ago.
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in a beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you,” he said.
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Damn. So everything I’ve been doing up until now is wrong?
I love the quote Geoff, but it amuses me as well…
It’s a bit like the temptation to quote the verse that says Christ came to help the sick not the healthy… and in so doing imply that gays, blacks, metalheads, women, and other minority groups are ’sick’ for being what they are.
To the mainstream, it feels like an expression of tolerance, but I think perhaps minority groups might feel a tad differently about it.
But I guess not excluding them from our lives and conversations is probably the first step towards letting their voices be heard so we can understand how much work will need to be done to make the journey from avoidance, through tolerance, to acceptance.
The quote might make more sense in the context of the bigger article. I’d encourage you to read the whole thing
Oh I should have read the whole article first, it comes across a lot stronger!
Onya Tony Campolo!
The Rich Mullins quote was just funny to me, but I guess it was target at WASPy christians so it made sense in context.
He is a great man, standing up for injustice in the world, cant wait to hear him speak live, in Perth, next year.
dont agree with everything he says, but thats okay.
I’d have to agree with you Mark - there are certainly some of his ideas that I’m not so sure about. But I think that even the things he says that I disagree with force me to understand why I disagree, and I think that’s useful too!
No; Christianity is about being “an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in a beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you”!