Mark Labberton said something last spring that reflects on all denominations and the stuff that grows around our commitment to Jesus Christ. Mark spoke of Jesus in the Sermon On the Mount, removing the crust around what it means to be really all about God. Crust, you know the way Baptists, Pentecostals, Bible Church folk and especially Presbyterians do church.
We want to be all about Jesus but end up being about denominational distinctives, orders of worship or disorders, pastoral dress or the lack thereof, music traditional or non and all the other stuff that build up around Jesus but are really culturally conditioned not scripturally or theologically.
I just met with a Lutheran pastor friend that I have know since the mid 80's and we discussed what it looks like to set aside the crust and preach the gospel in ways that actually leads into doing what Jesus says. What a novel idea! Not really. But if only it were all about Jesus and not about the crust.
I have a dream that all the pressures of this crazy post modern time will strip us of our crust and leave something that is truly transdenominational: the Lordship of Jesus Christ. That is what I want to be all about.
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Thanks, CPC
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