Houston, We Are the Problem
In this entire story, Jonah is almost comically stubborn. It’s easy to laugh at him. But are we so different? We let prejudice, busyness, laziness, and lack of compassion stop us from being salt and light. We can all admit this world is broken. It won’t get better until we repent.
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
