A content person is someone who desires what they already have. But what about when you lose what you have?
Today’s Christianity has been bifurcated. This is a time of great political and religious divide. Conservative vs. progressive means that both sides lose the values of the other. Conservative church larger but shrinking fast. It’s getting older and smaller.
Progressive much smaller. Growing in influence but not size.
Both seen by young people as irrelevant. Conservatives aren’t offering something to live for and progressives aren’t offering something to die for. We have lost sight of Jesus and his message.
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God here and now.
As citizens of the Kingdom we live in the now but not yet.
We need both personal piety and the drive to take the Kingdom to the world.
Widows and orphans were not seen as deserving recipients of charity in Jesus’ day. They were seen as less than human.
