Salt Shaking
Well, here you go - ways that you can be a salt shaker in Santa Barbara. Pretty basic stuff - Jesus asks us to be salt, and there are places in the city where some Kingdom taste needs to be mixed in. Rather than blame the culture, we can jump in and radically change it.
First, you can go to www.lifewind.org to read about where we are going - moving from relief to transformation. You will also see this site now on my blogroll so you can check in any time.
To start with, Jesus said, “Follow Me.” This is where He is taking the church of Santa Barbara (as well as other places). Now what happens if salt does not desire to be salt?
*Prayer Walking on the West Side - Thursdays at 12:30pm at the Village Apartments
This Thursday we walked throughout the lower West Side. An ex-gang member filled us in on everythings - prostituation rings, drug labs, gang headquarters. One of the residents at the Village apartments created poems about peace to put up all throughout the neighborhood. Her children helped put the poems up. These are the foolish Jesus followers believing in the vision of the Kingdom of God.
*Meal Sharing with Friends without Homes - Wednesday 5:30pm at Pershing Park on Castillo
This Wednesday it is like a parable. The Turner Foundation is hosting a talent show barbecue. It will be a mixture of all of us, friends without homes, Village apartment residents. Someone is planning to yodel, some children will play violins, and some of our street friends will be doing a puppet show for the children. It is the poetic Jesus in motion.
*Buying Shoes and Saving Lives - www.buyshoessavelives.org - Wednesday, August 27th at 7:00pm at North Star Coffee Company
How often do you get to hear stories from inside Iraq, and support some brothers and sisters who are literally saving the lives of children in Iraq? Well, join us this Wednesday and join the movement.
Liquid church is happening. For a long time, I had to argue that it was possible. I get to argue from the scriptures, from the way Jesus did things - to urge a return to Christology. New communities are being born, because of the hunger of the people for the transcendent Jesus, who is in culture, but not owned by any culture. He is already there, and we have been finding Him. We just point to people and say, “See, He has been here all along - we just haven’t been paying attention.
The words spoken to me, that the doors of friendship building, incarnational and loving mission, and union with Christ would be opened throughout Santa Barbara for the church is happening. Now, the decision is yours - individually and corporately.
Are we ok with 6,300 people living on the streets in our city?
Are we ok with the neglected on the West Side?
Join the transformational movement as we seek to find the answer together.
Comment on where you are salt, or where you want to be salt, or your answer to the above questions.