Visionary

This is a post in stream of consciousness. It'll be interesting to see what is written.

My first thought is that the Illini played well today. Not fantastic, but well enough for me to think we could win the next 3 games.

Second thought. Ty Grigg talked tonight at SNG about the walls that we put up between ourselves and God. He used the analogy of the Berlin wall. Some people were ok with the wall and some saw the injustice of it and got out. There was a woman that escaped from East Berlin to the west and when she got out from under the fence, she found out that she had nothing but her clothes on her back. She left everything behind for freedom.

Finally

The meat of the post. I have been thinking a lot recently. Not that I don't think other times, it's just that recently has struck me. The church in the hope for the world. Jesus called it to help the poor, orphaned, and widowed. We even talk about it a lot. But the thing I see us doing is being fantastic visionaries. "What if we instituted this program? What if we got involved with this organization?" And yet we seem to be more concerned with straight cold evangelism when I believe that the Gospel, when lived out, is enough to transform people (this isn't to say we shouldn't evangelize). Too many times we are the people inside the Berlin wall saying that it was bound to happen. Perhaps we should see the injustices and fight them with all our strength. Let's take the vision of the church and put it into action. I love the idea, and it's really a driving force for me right now. How can I help the poor? Living simpler. SO that means examining what I have and seeing what I need to get rid of what I don't need so the money can go to the poor. Let's see how this goes. Implementing the ideas and making them action. Vision can change the world...we must make sure it does so.