Amazing Quote!

Had to share this with you. Our pastor used it on the hand out for his sermon last weekend:

"What is, therefore, our task today? Shall I answer: 'Faith, hope, and love?' That sounds beautiful. But I would say - courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is - recklessness. For what we Christians lacks is not psychology or literature ... we lack a holy rage - the recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate in the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth ... a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth, and the destruction of God's world. To rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and against the madness of militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God. And remember the signs of the Christian Church have been the lion, the lamb, the dove, and the fish ... but never the chameleon."
by Kaj Munk, a Danish pastor and outspoken priest, uttered these prophetic words before he was killed, with his Bible next to him, by the Gestapo in January 1944.

It seems the world has come back to where we were. And, it is time for the Christians to rouse themselves from their slumber and complacency. We pray, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done," it is time for us to mean what we pray and to be willing to respond in action as God leads us.

Love,
Ev


One thing have I desired and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His tablernacle. Psalm 27:4