If you look at Christianity from its beginning, it didn’t have that name. Not even Jesus’s students named it that while he was alive. The “Way” was one of the names.
Let me pause. I want to go simple here. I’m usually digging and learning. But when I’m lost and looking for direction, I go to the New Testament. I look to the Way of Jesus. He talked to and healed all types of people regardless of deep cultural divides. He loved and preached love. He lifted up women over and over. In one of his last commands he put his mother’s care in his best friend’s hands. There’s no simpler, clearer way for me to see life.
We’re not a Nation. We’re an Empire made up of many Nations. There is no National conversation to be had, it’s the lie of the last 100 years.
That truth is not enough. We have to break up the Nations, talk to each other as individuals, not political abstractions. That’s what Jesus has taught me.
God bless and thank you for reading,
Jason