Jon Green

I have been thinking a lot lately about the way in which we as Christians represent Christ to the world. How can we tell people about who Jesus is without sounding like spiritual carnival barkers? “Come and see the God-Man! See the most spectacular event of all time. He’ll heal what ails you and make you whole. All for the cost of only a solitary prayer! And, for an additional nickel see the Bearded Lady!” Or maybe we sound more like military recruiters. “You know, if you enlist now you get out just in time for the resurrection, and we even have a rewards program where you can earn extra leadership in heaven.” Either way, that is not our Lord and that is not the Gospel. So how do we present the Good News that God cares about broken people who don’t have options?

One way: Stop screening our acquaintances to make sure that we are only around “godly” people and spend time with the same crowd Jesus did. Get involved in people’s messy, unorganized, broken lives, and show them the Grace of God. Only then does the body of Christ become a real person and not something you see in a movie with George Carlin standing next to it.