Everyone needs to arrange 35 minutes of time to check out Colmery's Water and Wine sermon at www.shorelinewest.org (from June 5) He discusses how Jesus' first miracle was at a party. When the alcohol ran out and the party started to suck, Jesus saved the day with barrels of awesome merlot. Imagine what that would have looked like on the Row today...
Awesome perspective on how Jesus was a fun guy--not some lame-o stereotype like so many Christians are today. People wanted to be around this guy. Why do we whitewash Christ? He wasn't a cheesy Ned Flanders type, but a true, authentic, cool guy. True, He did not sin. I'm not saying He was shady by any stretch of the imagination...progressive, but not shady. He got invited to parties. He hung around with some crazy ghetto thugs and doped-up prostitutes. I just wish that more Christians today could chill out a bit. Instead of working so hard at self-purification (though good) we should just enjoy the abundant life God has blessed us with. Share. Love. When our concern shifts from do-gooding to loving God and others, the holiness thing will fall into place. If we are all supposed to ask what Jesus would do and then live accordingly, we ought to take a realistic look at what Jesus did. He had fun.
Alas, a soapbox for me... Lest I continue in pointless ranting, I shall sum up with this:
Christians, pull that stick out of where you know it doesn't belong. Enjoy the party.
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hey the sermon this week at mppc was about esther. you should listen to it- good stuff.
www.mppc.org
and i guess click around the sermons should be pretty easy to find. $2 to watch it, free for just the audio (yeah i have different ideas about that... but that's how it is)
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