Desperation leads to faith. This was the cry of our church yesterday. A hope for something better leads to a faith, which in turn leads to Christ, 'the fixer of our life'. Maybe this wasn't the point of the sermon, but I think some could have took it this way. In my mind, Faith is berthed out of desperation. Hope is a call of the heart and mind for something better, and to hope for something better you have to believe there is something else out there. Lets review, Desperation leads to Hope, Hope leads to Faith, Faith leads to Christ, and Christ leads to security?
This, as I believe our preaching minister would agree, is totally misleading. Christ never leads us to security. If anything, Christ leads to more desperation. So why does anyone want to be lead to Christ? Is it because we will have, "Life with out end?" Or maybe, "one day those that have been our enemy will pay for their sins against us who are inside of the cult?" I would venture to say that Christ leads us to a place where we are ruined. We have been given a vision of an alternative life that we are invited to live NOW, not some faraway battle straight from the left behind series. Christ, out of our desperation, leads to a invitation to become co-creators with him on this glorious planet that he created. Its out of our "ruinedness" that we take part in proclaiming the richness of this alternative life.
No, there is no security, and no you might not have success. No, things won't go your way. Its not a membership, a democracy, or labor union. This alternative invitation can't fit into those models, its something different. No, you don't have to become "one of us." There is unity among the diversity. So what exactly is this alternative? Its messy, its up and down, and its filled with good and bad times. Its true community. It’s a group of people that hurts, laughs and lives life with you. The requirements? First, you must be broken. You can't pretend to know it all (people in the Bible already did that and they ended up killing Jesus). You must be totally desperate. You can cuss, drink, be gay, and be adultress. You Must be a lover of lust, greed, and all other kinds of wickedness. You must be one that invents ways of doing evil. But above all you must realize you are all these things and you are desperately tired of not fitting into any mold. You must be desperately wanting something more.
Desperation leads to hope, hope leads to faith, faith leads to Christ.
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And what is the point of being led to Christ if it is not security as previously determined? It's grace. Not a grace that says it is okay.
But a grace that says it is covered and a grace that reveals a God – a Father (Abba) who desperately loves us. Love is powerful. It moves people. It enables. God's love enables us to live – to live life in this creation to its' fullest. Living maybe not with worldly success and definitely with trials but living desperately loved.
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