This Beautiful Mess by Rick Mckinley

Author:Rick Mckinley [McKinley, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60142-570-6
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2013-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

The Jesus truth is a transforming truth. He realigns our lives with what is right. He heals our wounds. We don’t simply share the facts and figures of a Jewish rabbi who hung on a Roman cross in the Middle East thousands of years ago. We share how that rabbi is confronting, converting, and re-creating our view of the world all these years later.

The Jesus truth sits among the myriad other truths that are there for the taking. What makes it stand out are the people it keeps reinventing: addicts who have been made clean, greedy people who have learned generosity, selfish people who have become loving, and smart people who have become humble.

These people are like trees planted by a flowing stream, as the psalmist says. People who have gone to the Jesus cross and wept over their sin and kneeled in repentant prayer. There they felt the hand of Jesus upon their shoulders, beckoning them to rise as saints.

This is the truth that is Jesus not simply about Jesus. This truth opens blind eyes and raises to life those who long ago ran out of gas on the highways of culture and religion. To share this truth you are not reduced to sneaky tactics or sleight of hand or polished speeches. You simply and boldly proclaim the Jesus truth of a loving God who died and rose again. You have been captured by His love and are forever changing in it. You can’t help talking about it.

Many people have problems sharing this truth because they themselves have not experienced it or have chosen to not live by it. Guilt shows up listing oughts and shoulds until you quit listening. Guilt is appropriate if you choose to share the truth about Jesus without living it.

But if the Jesus truth is breaking or healing your heart day after day, then pointing this truth out to others is not a response to guilt but a natural act of worship.

The Jesus truth changes everything.

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