If you've not picked up the current issue of Relevant magazine, Earl Creps' brief article, The End of the World as We Know It is worth the four bucks. Here's a clip from the end of the article:
Jesus' resurrection is the guarantee that the reign of God is breaking out in the world right now. The issue is whether we will embrace it... The choice, then, is not which religion to believe in, but which world to live in: the Kingdom of Me + God or the Kindgom of God + Me...
The call on my life today is to embrace an active, intentional, step-by-step lifestyle that eludes my own self-protective, self-advancing, Westernized interpretation of the Gospel.
That means the celebration of Easter starts with the surrender of the cross. Again. Today.
