Escape from Evangelical Island

The cushy oblivion known as the Island of Evangelicalism is a dangerous place.

Filled with pretentious trendiness, superficial authenticity, and plastic spirituality.

It’s the worst kind of prison because it’s one you never want to leave.

The artificial trees never need watering.

You’re always well fed.

And every one around you looks and acts like you.

We’ve traded something real for something clean.

We’re becoming cookies cut from the same cutter.

The only problem is the cutter’s not Christ, it’s consumer Christianity.

Perhaps its time for the cookies to reject the cutter.

For Stepford Christians to rage against the machine.

What if we escaped the Island and swam to the shores of biblical Christianity?

What if we became refugees from the comfortable life called evangelicalism…

and followers of the dangerous footprints that Jesus left behind?

Discovering we’re all diverse jewels within the treasure chest of God’s love.

Remembering the grace of God is not just a gift we are given, but one that we share.

Returning to the life less ordinary we find in Jesus.

Let’s become the Church we find in the scriptures.

Not start the ones in our visions of sugar plums.

Let’s make disciples guided by the gospel and rooted in love.

Not create consumers of big shows and celebrity.

Let’s show this broken world that Christ came to save jacked-up people like us.

Not hide our brokenness behind hipster hairstyles and bloated egos.

Let’s leave the isle of evangelicalism behind and simply swim to Jesus.

The Founder and Perfecter of our faith.