Randy Bohlender of Stuff I Think fame has been at it again….he has messed with my head. His message has really become a ‘mess’-age and now I am all undone…..all because he writes about the heart of an 11 year old….that actually lived out the gospel when he “stopped for the one”, and actually made a difference in the life of a homeless man. Go over to this man’s blog and read ‘The Burrito Prayer Movement” where Randy marries the concepts of going for a deeper life with God, with social activism:
As long as I can remember, there’s been a disconnect between doing and praying. Churches had a tendency to lean hard one way or the other – activism or intercession. In connecting with a body of believers, you chose between addressing social ills or committing to going deep with God. It never occurred to us that addressing social ills might mean going deep with God or vice versa. We didn’t consider that to try to do one while ignoring the other was to be far less than Jesus told us to be.
WOW….a convicting read people….you have been warned. Truly, small acts, done with great love, can change are changing, the world.
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John, My parents were living examples of this. My mother brought strangers home from the hospital (where my father was dying) to sleep in my bed because they were sleeping in the lobby. I gave them my clothes. This is only one example of numerous acts. We didn’t call it burrito or even Christian, we just thought it was life properly lived. Why would one live any other way. It was only after getting deeply involved with another “movement” that things changed. I shook it off years ago & find no conflict in fulfilling the greatest commandment & second “like the first”. Just this morning one of our people called me to say she’d be late (for pre-service intercession) because shed seen an elderly woman in her neighborhood who looked like she may be lost or addled & stopped to check on her. If “being the church” only happens Sunday morning in the “warehouse” you can have it! We are offered burrito moments every single day. Only religious self-absorption will blind us to them. Gotta run eat some Mexican food right now….really.
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