A new kind of Christianity will emerge when people would move into a more intense commitment to love God, neighbor, and self. This movement will surely be disruptive, just as Jesus disrupted the status quo in his own day.
Jesus was disruptive when he told Nicodemus in the gospel of John that in spite of all his learning, he needs to go back and start over and be born again. He was disruptive when He told a woman that the location of worship doesn’t matter at all and that temples were irrelevant. Jesus was calling for a radical disruption in his religion. Perhaps a similar disruption is needed today in the religion that names itself after him.
Further in the New Testament, the disruption that Jesus was calling for was repeated (1 Peter 2:5). The way of life centered in the Temple must be disrupted because God wanted to dwell not in buildings of bricks or stones, but in human beings—living stones, he called them—cemented together by mutual love, honor, and respect.
This disruptive revolution begins with each of us presenting ourselves, with all of our doubts and imperfections, all of our failures, fears, and flaws, to the Spirit.
God’s message of love is sent into the world through human beings. If we want to see a great spiritual migration begin, then let it start right with one another. When we let our lives become a foothold of liberation.
1 Peter 2:5 “And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.”
