Today's passage converges with a few other things I've seen and been reading.
Jungi posted this video of a Francis Chan sermon
Then, I watched this video of Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris interviewing Reverend Chan on his post-Cornerstone plans.
I've also started reading The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, by Peter Gomes.
It's weird, I can almost "feel" my perception of the gospel shifting.
I can't really get down everything that I'm trying to concurrently process, but some thoughts:
1. What Pastor Chan is doing really doesn't seem that strange or off-the-beaten path when you think of Paul. Why don't more people do things like what he's doing?
2. Probably because the gospel is a wildly, up-ending and subversive revolution. There's something very strange to me that the modern day church has become a bulwark of the status quo.
3. There's nothing intrinsically good or bad about money. Or sex for that matter. What's bad is when man's perception of things tied to money (including themselves) warps.
4. Paul called it even back then. The church inevitably becomes infected by people preaching a sleepy, complacent, diluted, no-wave-making-parts only gospel.
Tired, I gotta come back to this later...
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