Skip's Blog – January 2009 Archive (2)

Martin Luther King Jr. said:

“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering, by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you. Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.… Continue

“The dream of Jesus Christ is the Kingdom of God, and the committed disciple buys into his dream.

It ought to be noted that the Kingdom is not an abstraction. It is a concrete, visible, and formidable reality forged by the personal commitment of many members. A commitment that does not issue in humble service, suffering discipleship, and creative love is an illusion. The world has no interest in abstractions, and Jesus Christ is impatient with illusions: ‘Everyone who listens to these… Continue