“It is so much easier to sit in darkness than to gather enough wood for a fire.” “What is truth? If you take away the right to question you turn Christianity from a rushing mighty wind into a windowless room full of stale recycled air.”
I was asked to do a funeral for a homeless man’s brother. He is a great man, this guy James, he’s just been through some hard knocks and leaned on the wrong things. We’re not so far away from where he is at, not really. It’s just that our vices are more acceptable.
True Christianity is about making disciples, which is a relational concept. Can the megachurch accomplish the original mission of Christ if they cannot successfully sustain true relationships? How can a message of financial prosperity, a lavish lifestyle of pastoral fame, and opulent, multi-acre “church” campuses embody the message of a peasant, homeless Messiah, with twelve intimate followers whose last command was to “make disciples”?
Sherlock Holmes walks in revelation, knowing through keen observation how things happen and why people have done things and where everything is going. Poor Watson is in the dark most of the time and in the end, after Sherlock explains everything he sees it and remarks how simple it all really was.