What if....

What if Jesus showed up in church this Sunday and told our congregations that it is more important for us to care about one another than it is to worry about the three B's; that is to say, buildings, budgets, and butts in seats?

What if Jesus then went on to say that true worship of the Father occurs when people gather together to remember that their lives have meaning....and that there is more, so much more of God's life available to us than we ever dreamed possible?

What if Jesus gathered us so closely around himself that we could hear the beating of his heart and in that moment of sacred sharing , we heard Jesus whisper that his greatest desire was for us to love one another and to help one another as we go out and love the world?

What if Jesus went on to say that all of our wealth, our money, our homes, our boats/cars/whatever, are not our own? What if Jesus patiently explained to us how EVERYTHING belongs to God? What if Jesus were somehow able to impress upon each one of us that every breath we draw flows from the life and love of God Himself?

What if Jesus grabbed up the offering plates and threw them like frisbees onto our podiums and banished them from our churches, commanding us to share all of our resources with one another, to give to the poor, to live inter-dependently.

What if Jesus called for our children, all of our children, and what if Jesus stood before us all and instructed us to raise His children, as a community, as Christ's family, together.

Do you think your church would listen?

I'm not sure my church would listen....we certainly haven't listened very well thus far.

I wonder if we ever will?