A Prophetic Voice for Christianity?
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A 21st Century Prophet?
The prophetic voice of Shane Claiborne always challenges the gravitational forces of complacency in my life (by the way, I doubt he’d refer to himself as a prophet). I love what he has to say and I hate what he has to say, the latter a result of me knowing how often I tend to be a hearer of Jesus’ words rather than a doer of his words. I was reminded of this today when I came across Shane’s op-ed piece from the November 18 issue of Esquire magazine titled “What if Jesus Meant All that stuff.” Here’s my favorite paragraph:
In fact, the entire story of Jesus is about a God who did not just want to stay “out there” but who moves into the neighborhood, a neighborhood where folks said, “Nothing good could come.” It is this Jesus who was accused of being a glutton and drunkard and rabble-rouser for hanging out with all of society’s rejects, and who died on the imperial cross of Rome reserved for bandits and failed messiahs. This is why the triumph over the cross was a triumph over everything ugly we do to ourselves and to others. It is the final promise that love wins.
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