We
have bought into the culture of commodity and production. We have been seduced
by ‘empire’ around us. We claim Jesus to be Lord but we listen to other lords
who through media and model and manatras have seduced us into living life their
way, the way of the world, which is not the alternative, upsidedown culture of
the Christ. Walmart or McDonalds – we go because we have needs and wants.
But
what would happen if you were a church that said to those who gathered and
walked and worked together – ‘It’s not about you, it’s not firstly about your
needs, let alone wants. Even concerns, needs, wants with regard to our family –
all of that might be met, as a by-product of our seeking another way, a more
bilblical way, a missional way of following Jesus, of being church in our
times.
Seek
first the Kingdom; get in on God’s missional agenda – and all these things will
be added to you (at least the things we truly need – God knows).
