Living is Simple

The two simplest commandments in Scripture are to Love God and Love Others as much as i love myself. It is these very two things that have been the stumbling block for literally thousands of people as they consider the claims of Jesus. There is nothing so self-less as giving every inch of your being to a God you cannot smell,taste,touch,hear, or see and to people who will continually dissapoint, hurt, frustrate, and turn a deaf ear to your needs

Certainly we are deaf to the tales of unbelieveably selfless individuals who day after day pour themselves out like drink offerings to the communities around them. Puritan pastor Jonathan Edwards one of the most brilliant theologians ever spent the last years of his life as a domestic missionary to some indian tribes in the northeast. Jim Elliott and others viewed it as unthinkable to do anything but ultimately burn up in the service of Christ.

I hate that we think in America somehow we should be living a different form of safer christianity. Like the Scriptures weren't really supposed to ever be read through the lens of a 21st century american. Can we please stop playing games.