Messages of grace being cheapened and how we are isolated are kinda at the core of my concerns for America.
Shane Claiborne was part of starting a community of Christians that serve each other and many other things that fulfill needs of people. It isn't surprising that people like him, with the controversial message of limitless grace, are misunderstood. People like Bonhoeffer might have liked him. Bonhoeffer spent many of his days in jail writing about the need for an understanding of grace, real nitty gritty grace, not the kind that says: say this prayer and just live however you want cuz God'll forgive you anyway--that is what Jesus was for, right?
Well, yes and no, I don't think we'll "get it" without an encounter with the real God, real Jesus, and real Holy Spirit. And in an entitlement-oriented culture with an agenda about our own livelihoods and dreams it is difficult for me to believe most of us really get it. Most days I don't "get it". I'd like to believe that I'm useful to God, I wonder though, my myopic worldview and being consumed with the needs of the day really don't leave much room in my mind and heart for His work.I guess I just keep praying that He can use me. He says, in the Bible, he likes it when we do that.
