meditatio at the water's edge

Million Dollar Baby

Watched the movie tonight... powerful. Real powerful.

Travis Swierenga always says that people are messy. He's right.

And the more we get to know people, the more we want to protect them. We want to pretent everything is o.k. when they may not be. We'd rather not face the truth and really work on fixing or improve problems.

I think that's partly why McLaren has taken so much grief. He cares so deeply about the church, and he knows things are a mess. Perhaps they have always been a mess, but at least he's not pretending that it's not a mess.

Over the past months I've noticed the brokenness of relationships within my own life, and they don't just get better no matter how much I wish it. Real fixing takes hard work. Real hard work.

My guess is that sometimes we don't like sanctification much because it's hard. We don't really want to become better followers of Jesus because we will have to show our colors. We'll have to show our brokenness, and we'll have to show our passion for the ways of Jesus rather than the ways of this world.

Life is too short even if we have eternity; let's get on with the ways of the kingdom my friends.

Please.

No. Really.