More from Shane Claiborne
Jan 6th 2010gregmissions & mystery & sermon seeds
I’m hard-pressed to find anywhere in Scripture where Jesus commanded people to worship him. His life was simply an invitation of grace. I heard one theologian say that one thing we can learn from Jesus is that the gospel spreads best not through force but through fascination. That’s Jesus. He doesn’t force; He fascinates us with love. Good leaders live in ways that woo people into their vision. Force, coercion, manipulation, aggression…these are weapons of the weak. These are the devices of empires. These were the tools of Caesar.
We can learn from Jesus. As evangelicals, we want people to know the love of Jesus. But that doesn’t just happen by saying a magic prayer. It only happens by saying, “Come and see. Come and follow. Come and feel. Come and experience the goodness of God.
p. 105 Follow me to freedom
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leah on 06 Jan 2010 at 9:42 pm #
Good stuff.
Rick on 07 Jan 2010 at 8:38 pm #
Amen brother Amen. “Deny yourself take up your cross and follow me”.
leah on 08 Jan 2010 at 10:56 am #
Interesting point, Rick. Too often we humans see the phrases “taste and see that the Lord is good” or “come and experience the goodness of God” and then see “deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me” and we see contradictory statements. But when we take that leap of faith to follow God no matter how crazy it may seem, we find God is Good.