“the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. This is the way Jesus came to reveal God’s love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God’s Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life”

I love this paragraph from Henri Nouwen’s book “In the Name of Jesus.”  It always reminds me that we are not here to be relevant and to try to measure up to the standards of man. Instead we are here to share God’s love and the good news of the Gospel. I feel like more and more we in this generation try so hard to be relevant to say the right thing as not the be “that Christian” or as not to be classified with “those radical or weird ones” that we forget it’s all about a man.  A man who died for us because He loves us. Who sacrified himself  because of love.

Lord, please continue to give me and this generation the revelation of Your Love. And the revelation that the pleasures of this world hold nothing to the pleasures of knowing and loving You.

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