Daring Ways to Reach Out

I have been taking all the cars at work for emmissions testing today (a crappy requirement the Colorado Springs has) and so I have been reading a book called Blue Like Jazz. In the chapter on confession, the author and his friends set up a confessional booth on their college campus during a big party. The twist is that the booth is for these guys to ask the students forgiveness for all the sins of Christians over the ages. I think stuff like the crusades and all the corruption in the church over the years is what sticks in non-christians minds. There are many times I have tried to distance myself from the standard American church with my non-christian friends and even in just normal life I cringe everytime I see someone protesting homosexuals or trying to make everyone conform to the "Christian" way of thinking. You would think that Focus on the Family would have realized by now that we are no better then the catholics who went down to Jerusalem during the crusades and forced values onto people.

I am defintely not anything like Jesus when it comes to this. I do not tend to embrace the periahs of society. It is so easy to stay in my own little shell with friends and not risk rejection by the Christian community to reach out to those in America who really need it. I confess that I have not blatantly witnessed to anyone in the past year.

Even confessing the sins of corporate Christianity to non-christians would be so relieveing sometimes. I may not have been in the crusades, but I complicitly stand by while Christians hate other people every day and do not say anything. One of my friends is always saying, "Choose your fights" I feel like those kind of fights are worth choosing but I sometimes back away for political reasons and i kno I shouldn't I wonder how many other Christians back away from confrontation every day just so their lives will be easier.