Jesus is not anxious, manipulative, or desperate for power. That’s because God is sovereign. God is patient. God has a purpose God wants to accomplish. This is good news because
Free
Diversity
Creation declares diversity is Godly. That makes God big, generative and courageous. We, however, tend toward smallness, restriction and fear. It’s tragic that people of faith have allowed politics of manipulation to denigrate and weaponize what is the beauty of God’s imagination.
Release
‘We support freedom and religion as long as they take their place behind our right to make a dollar.’ I bet Paul and Silas heard sentiments like that when they cast out a money making demon that gave a slave girl the ability to tell fortunes.
Witness
To be a witness is the perfect adaptive approach to the most pernicious problems we face as a species. To be a witness is the radical democratization of leadership delivered through your personal and authentic experience of Jesus in your life.
Inexhaustible
Talking about God always energizes the church. Each past hope/energy event contains enough hope/energy for us today. God’s hope/energy is defiant and inexhaustible.
Uncertainty
Anxiety, at base, is energy and with the aid of the Holy Spirit that energy can be channeled into faith while pursuing and accomplishing the works of faith in our right now.