Okay, I confess to a quasi-obsession with this topic which has taken me a lot longer than I expected to unpack. I can’t seem to get out of my craw that we’re strangers following a Stranger here with a strange message in a strange land among strange people who think we’re strange. I can’t stop musing …
Servant Subversion versus Abdication
“The light of the world does not withdraw, saying “good riddance” to godless darkness. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. Where it can’t, it weeps.” Now that we’ve contrasted Servant Subversion with fortification, exploitation, domination, and accommodation, let’s examine one “last” strategy that Christians …
Servant Subversion versus Accommodation
“Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.” 1 Peter 2:12 There’s an old saying, “He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.” We Christians have to decide if …
Have A Revolutionary Christmas!
“The Bible,” claimed one little girl to her Sunday School class, “ends in Revolutions!” Her mispronunciation of the Bible’s last book notwithstanding, she got something right. The God of the Bible initiates and sustains REVOLUTIONS. Another young girl got this in her famous song. Can you guess the song and its author? The song was …
Servant Subversion versus Exploitation
Jesus, our prototypical Subversive, was a culture-changing, foot-washing troublemaker! He insists that playing on his team entails more than having his name on the front of our jerseys. When we say that we aspire to be like him are we just talking about his clean-talking, drug-free, conservative-voting niceness? Or do we mean that we’re following …
