The question keeps me up at night lately: how to be a Christian? How to really follow Christ? So many all around me are acting like it's an easy thing, with a clear path to follow. I don't know. What would He do? That statement, less a popular bracelet and more a wrestling of the soul, keeps me up at night.
Church sometimes smothers His voice, but sometimes I still hear it there.
Numbness is a short-term solution, but then I return to the Good News, like a magnet drawn back. Where else would I go?
These culture wars make me want to chuck away all the obvious stuff, all the church going and right-stuff saying--communes start to look mighty good. Running away, always so appealing.
Maybe I'll just set up a stand, with a sign that says "Free Listening. No Advice, Promise." We could even bow our knees together, in need and gratitude.
Can any change come from the inside? Or do I need to find others who think like I do? A cause I can really get behind, body and soul? An end to the exhaustion, the constant fight against criticism....
I don't know.
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If the goal is to win the culture wars, Christians have been at a stalemate for, oh, thousands of years... If the goal is to change hearts, sometimes I feel like Christians are only winning the battle if they aim to harden them. Which of course they are not.
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