The Island of American Christianity
Sep 2011 01

The cushy island known as American Christianity can be 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.

Have we traded something real for something sanitized?

Perhaps its time for Stepford Christians to rage against the machine.

What if we escaped the island and swam to the shores of authentic Christianity?

What if we became refugees from the comfortable life…

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.

What if we showed this broken world that Christ came to save jacked-up people like us?

Not hide our brokenness behind our well-crafted masks.

What if we left behind our religious creation and simply swam to Jesus?

The Founder and Perfecter of our faith.