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Home is where the idols are big

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If your leaders are followers of big things they are far from the kingdom of God. Big impresses and traps the foolish.

Rooting out the fools

Luke 12:16-21

16) And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. 17) And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ 18) Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19) And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20) But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ 21) So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Luke’s gospel

Big follies not in the news

  • Law
  • Socialism
  • Religious politics
  • Evangelical fundamentalism
  • Racial purity
  • Christian government
  • Compassionate corporations

Stop being deceived by mega corporations,  mega  churches, mindblowing inventions, artificial intelligence, and megalomaniacs.

Kill the Dreamers

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Dreams and visions have enlightened and comforted humans, and even charted the path for families, and one might say the entire human race. At the end of Stephen’s cutting defence in his case before the Sanhedrin, he had a vision which consoled him, but his defence had unvelied a pattern of behaviour which I would like to call “kill the dreamer”.

Killing the dreamer was the consistent response of a stiffnecked and resistant people to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Dreams and visions can characterize the deeper levels of divine instruction which often come into conflict with the written instructions, hence the resistance of those who thought that the Law was the last word in divine intervention. Christians are called to dream: dream against the grain, swim upstream and in the face of contradiction and hopelessness. Stephen was a dreamer. He was appointed to take care of daily distribution of life’s necessities but he was granted to follow his master in accurate tteaching of the truth and dying for the cause.

Have you stopped dreaming?

More tomorrow