L29:Community

If the process of redemption is the process of placing Christ more and more at the center, then something has got to move out of the way. We're born at our own center, and we can't stay there if Christ is to take his rightful place. If we don't make the effort to take ourselves out of the center and put Christ at the center, we run the risk of making life an attempt at being the best at putting Christ at the center. That might not be totally bad, but there's a reason unity is placed at so high a place of priority in the New Testament. There's a reason what we do to the least of these is what we do to Christ, and there's a reason true religion is feeding the hungry. It's not because works have anything to do with our salvation. It's because Christ is most at his right place when we're out of our own center, inside the same periphery we place others, and then we see and feel their needs as if we have them, and helping others, doing things for others, thinking of others ahead of ourselves is the natural outpouring of the worldview Christ calls us to. People often rationalize the James passage as saying that true faith will produce good fruit. But that's still a bit too self-centered because it's placing the emphasis on one's own faith.

-Zack

"And the problem it seems is with you and me not the love Who came to fix everything"

-David Crowder