Time for a Revolution

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Jesus began a movement, fueled by his Spirit, a movement whose purpose was and is to change the face of the earth from the nightmare it often is into the dream that God intends. . . .

          Michael Curry

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Jesus didn’t come to establish an institution

Jesus came to start a movement

More than a movement

 

A revolution

A Maundy Thursday Revolution

 

A revolution marked by servanthood

By radical inclusion and equity

And fueled by the Sacred

 

This movement was all about Jesus

not so much believing in Jesus

saying the right things about Jesus

but listening to Jesus (we have to accept Jesus as our teacher)

being washed by Jesus (accepting the power to become fresh and new)

following Jesus (the way of Jesus needs to be our way)

welcoming Jesus (in the Spirit, which permeates us into we look a little bit like Jesus)

 

This movement was all about community

Gathering around a table

Breaking bread, raising a cup

but more

not just chewing on bread and sipping out of a cup

but chewing on the presence

taking the holy into our being

assimilating love

 

until

 

love takes over

and we do life a different way

and live in such a way that we abolish poverty and hunger in our

little outposts of the Kingdom

 

and then work to abolish poverty and hunger in the world

 

and don’t stop with poverty and hunger

but work to abolish fear, and hate and the subsequent violence

and overwhelm greed by insisting on the common good

 

remember!

this is a movement, a revolution

this is those who have chosen to open their minds and hearts and souls to the Spirit

letting the Spirit blow them into service

and set them on fire with love for all

 

This is a movement of equality and equity

a movement where the last are first, and the first last

and the rulers wash feet

and justice rolls like a river

and there is no Jew or Gentile (or any other religion) or white, or BIPOC, or LGBGTQI+,

or Republican, or Democrat,

 

just people who love God

love themselves

and love each other

 

and insist

that love wins

 

as the old children’s song wisely insists

the church is not a building

the church is not a steeple

the church is not a resting place

 

the church is a people

empowered by the Spirit

going forth

to change the world