Dimly Lit

Here’s a post worth spending a little time thinking about. It’s from Michael Spenser’s new home on the web called Jesus Shaped Spirituality, the post is ‘Pray at the Pump: A Meditation on Jesus and Economic Discipleship‘.

This is the imagination and mindset of American Christians: God is
committed to our lives as we imagine them. He is committed to the gas,
the SUVs, the economics, the houses, the conveniences, the investments,
the stability, the politics, the military and the religion that
maintain the lives we lead.

Micheal’s encouragement to us? That evangelicals need to learn to embrace poverty. To look at the affluence we’ve surrounded ourselves with in our homes, our cars and our churches and ask if Jesus is really all that interested in our economics.