When I first started hanging around in ghettos, I thought that if I worked really hard I could make them go away. Years later, after I knew better, I thought that if I worked really hard, I could at least figure out where they come from in the first place.
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Greetings. It is my great privilege to join you this afternoon, and I will do my best to respect that privilege by not preaching at you about the needs of the world. You and I have had that conversation already, and you know what I think of your vast gifts and privilege, which are so beautifully on display today. I think they belong to the poor, in Jesus’ name.
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A few years ago, after being politely asked to depart early from yet another speaking engagement for giving the wrong answer to a question about the limits of God’s mercy, I decided it wasn’t fair to keep sneaking up on unsuspecting Evangelicals. Strange as it seems to me, I know all too well that to promote a God both loving enough to desire the salvation of all His children and powerful enough to accomplish it is a dangerous scandal to such folks. After all, without the fear of their unsaved loved ones’ eternal damnation, how would they motivate one another for outreach and missionary service?
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