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If somehow, and I know this is a poor analogy, Jesus were to come back to earth this year, and run for office, would anybody vote for Him?

I seriously doubt it.

I’m an American and will always so be, so the context of my messages must remain here as with so many other commentaries. What’s happening in America, isn’t in much of the rest of the world. Good thing too. Christianity is seeing revival in many parts of the world and signs and wonders are marching right along side. In America, Christianity has lost is luster, saltiness if you will. Church attendance is going downhill fast. So, enough of the distinctions, I’m feeling bad.

America is in to BIG, POWERFUL and GRANDIOISE. Jesus is not!

It’s the CROSS! Christians are people of the way, the path, the truth- the CROSS. Well, we are until we have to get on that cross and stay there for very long. Lent is really too long, don’t you think? Let me remind you, the cross is about death to SELF! You know, that bragadocious ego, that made in America (would you believe China?) arrogance, and that I deserve this and that mentality. However, John Stott put it this way, “Power through weakness lies at the heart of even the mystery of Almighty God Himself.” One of the many scandals of the Christian walk is I Cor. 1:27.

Somehow, we need to REDISCOVER the truth- a truth that over some 2,000 years has been watered down into a Seven Step, You Are The Greatest, kinda crap. Oh, and we love it so! It so feeds our ego. So much of the church message today is good that it’s about encouragement (we all need that), but it’s an encouragement to the flesh, the soul, the ego. You can do it. You are the BEST, a WINNER, and above all don’t let anybody convince you that you’re not a CHAMPION!

Barf!

The opening scene in The Fellowship Of The Ring (J.R. Tolkien) reminds us with these words, “Much that once was, is lost, for none lived who can remember it. Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History has become legend. Legend has become myth.” As Barry White would say, “Can you dig it?” Sure do miss that voice! Ahh but I digress. We have forgotten, and maye that is why the Bible says in so many places that we are to