"JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS" - FROM
BEING EXILED by Rob Bell
To be like Jesus is a tall
order but not so impossible if Rob Bell could have been a little more outspoken
about us all renouncing the attacks, the occupations, the aggressions, the
sheer violence of our descendants and, now, ourselves - on other nations. The Church in exile is the church wrapped in
the devil's arms of violence; it should be noted for its non-violence.
Jesus wants to save
Christians to be more like Him in the way He renounced empire building in His
first temptation. Rob omits to remind
his readers that the Christian West has been at the forefront of taking and taking
over countries to be all their own - called colonialism. Now the religious, God fearing, USA is the
largest empire on earth. The Church in
exile is the church in unholy empire of being on the take; of being in domination. Not quite what Jesus intended!
"Man shall not live
by bread alone". Yet, the Church
has done just that in grabbing what and who it can while the going was
good. Not just land and fossil fuels but
slaves to make us rich beyond what humanity has ever seen before. We are now turning, transforming, the stones
of rare minerals and a host of other finite resources to live it up to bring
today's comfort and riches. But bread
for the poor and future generations is overlooked, ignored, forgotten. Including the stones of fossil fuels and all
finite raw materials.
Is this not what Jesus
also wants to save Christians from in order to be more like the Man God who
rejected what we never, ever reject?
Rob - You have more to
include in the next edition, please!
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