Violence Is For Those Who Have Lost

The World Is Looking, Not For Christians Who Are Perfect, But For Christians Who Are Honest And Who Are Willing To Be Honest With Some Of Our Contradictions And Hypocrisy.

Somehow Jesus's Reputation Has Survived All The Embarrassing Things That Christians Have Done In His Name.

Jesus Is Challenging That When Addressing "who Is Your Neighbor" And He Has A Lot Of Hard Things To Say About Family, "unless You Hate Your Own Family You Are Not Going To Be A Disciple." He Is Challenging The Limits Of Our Compassion And Our Love As If Someone's Kid Suffers It Should Be As Devastating To Us As If It Were Our Own Kid. That Is What The Early Church Said.

Whenever Folks Say Radical Christianity Is "a Phase" Of Youth, I Tell Them They Need To Meet Our 80-year-old Nun Or My Friend Tony Campolo.

We Think Of Justice Sometimes As Getting What You Deserve, You Know  -  what Crime Was Committed And What Is The Punishment For That Crime. That's How A Lot Of The Criminal Justice Works. But God's Justice Is Restorative, So It's Not As Interested In Those Same Questions Of "what Did They Do Wrong?" And "what Is The Punishment For That?" It's More About What Harm Was Done And How Do We Heal That Harm, And That's A Much More Redemptive Version. So, It Definitely Doesn't Turn A Blind Eye To Harm, But It Does Say We Want To Heal The Wounds Of That.