aliens among us

subtitle: rambling about salvation

So I went to the secret and illegal meeting of underground Christians who meet in the building that the Refuge OKC is trying to get up to code so they can meet legally…

OK, no I didn’t. I don’t even know if they’ve considered doing this. If not, I have to ask why? Christians around the world defy the law all the time to meet in secret. Even today. Why is this Jesus not good enough for us Americans?

So I went to church at “The Ed” and a couple knew I was going there that day, and that they would be busy being greeters and couldn’t give me their whole attention. I guess they also felt they might be doing something they weren’t supposed to do if they told anyone else there I was visiting? Because my feet didn’t get washed, and until I walked up and talked to someone, I might as well have been at a cinema multi-plex among a group of complete strangers to one another. I have to ask, is this version of your Jesus the one you want me to accept? Because I’m not interested in just raising my hand when you want, taking your Newbie kit, and then getting some help to find the small group meeting that fit’s my lifestyle needs and/or desires.

Don’t start. I only pick on LC because I like them. Here, I’ll do someone else. (grin)

So I go to Mars Hill and watch a video on how they went out into their neighborhood to serve as example of God’s love to their neighbors who also happen to be refugees. And I meet a guy that has been attending their church for a year who has some critical health care needs that were in plain sight, and I guess everyone was trying to be polite and not make him feel bad about being a walking cry for help, so nobody bothered to ask if he had specific needs. So I did. And then I handed that over to a member of the church because so sorry, I have my own problems and needs to deal with. So, if I can do your job for you without being a Christian, how does this attract me to your Jesus? And if you are all, and here I mean all, not just LC or Mars Hill, so eager and full of energy to find and help the needy have you NOT started with those that God has drawn to you? Why go out and look for others first?

Because if this is the Jesus you are offering, well, no thanks. I’ve got my own second best Jesus. And if you think I’m being a bit high-handed, well, I still don’t like cheap toilet paper. How bout you? Ready to settle for cheap, single-ply, skin-scraping, messy, toilet paper for your kids because it’s better than nothing? You can’t treat me like family because the responsibility might be too high a price to pay?

“Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver”

Exactly. (grin)

What? Still not clear on why I won’t accept your second best Jesus? OK, I’ll try to do a part two on this that will be called something like, why your best Jesus would cost me more than it costs you. Or something like that.

(grin)