Simply Jesus
June 22nd, 2009
I have been wondering about Jesus of late, let’s say I am curious about Him. I think it is all right to be curious again. I have been reading a book about Leonardo da Vinci - his curiosity lead him to all those inventions. I am seeking to reinvent Jesus, but rather to discover Him again.
Not only have I been seeking to understand who He is, but I have been begging Him for wisdom and mercy, in the midst of a tense existence. It is a tension between church and culture, which I live within every day. Now, I have asked God to take it away, but it hasn’t happened. It may be a sort of thorn in the flesh for me, which pushes me forward even in the midst of it.
I believe, God is asking for reform - that is the bottom line. That might also be termed repentance. I think repentance is always good for us all the time, whether we are talking about individually, church, or culture. Everything must adapt and change - we actually thrive in times of change.
Leonardo’s inventions came within a huge time of change, as did the early reformation. I believe we are in those times again.
My friends in the younger generation look around and see that things just are not working - they are curious for new ways. I am in between of course, being 45 (still young!). I have to admit that I am looking to create new ways and things, while also trying to pull together the generations to communicate and work together. This is some times working both within grassroots tweeting and facebooking and at the same time within churches and existing organizations.
All this comes back to Jesus because I am dazed and confused between how this all works, and how do you go about justice nicely and still be prophetically poignant and straight. Honestly I think we like prophets once they are dead. Not to say that I am at all in the prophet line of the biblical epic, but I sense something is wrong and it has to do with our neglect of the poor. We do this at our own peril and risk.