Sacrifice vs. Intolerance

Sacrifice vs. Intolerance.  We're going to let them duke it out on the platform at Crossroads this weekend.  I'm pretty sure who will win (hint: it's the one who doesn't care about winning).

I'm going to open up a vein and share some stuff with you on Sunday that hopefully will get the ball rolling.  You know, I used to be quite a baddy in my old life.  And the funny thing is, I was real intolerant of people who weren't like me.  Then I got cleaned up, sobered up, picked up and saved. But I also got 'religion', and with it, I got it's ugly twin sister 'intolerance'.  And the funny thing is, I was - STILL - real intolerant of people who weren't like me.  How does that even work?

There was a time that I really believed that being a Christian and being a Republican were synonymous.  If you were a commie-pinko-liberal-tree-hugging-homo-loving-nazi like Bill & Hillary (or Pat Schroeder) I just hated you and everything you stood for.  But I was a Christian.  And on Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night I'd be on the front row - in my best suit - singing to God and lifting my hands to heaven - tears streaming down my face - so in love with God who had brought me from darkness into light.

I never realized until much later in life, that I had only GLIMPSED the light - I wasn't really LIVING in it.  I had swung so far to the right, I really believed that it was ME that was right.  Guys (understanding that you may disagree vehemently) today, I KNOW that it isn't ME that's right.  God is right.  I'm just someone he loves, that has a lot of work to do.

Show up on Sunday morning at Crossroads as we crack open Part Three of our current series GOD LOVES U2.  This week: In The Name of Love.  See you there!