In my daily blog reading I ran across a great post on Mark Driscoll's blog, Resurgence, that totally blew my socks off. Click the link to read the whole post by Gary Shavey and Anthony Bradley.

When asked what the biggest problem facing the church today is, Bradley sounds off with the following:

"Fear, pain, passive men, and love. We fear the power of the gospel story, we fear the implications of the Missio Dei, we fear the Enemy, we fear transformation, we fear change, we fear questions, we fear doubts, we fear new leaders, we fear new realities, we fear people not already like us, we fear culture, we fear the Truth, we fear liberation, we fear healing, we fear mission, we fear living like Jesus lived, we fear being the people of God in a broken world, we fear facing our fears, we fear the healing of our fears, we fear risks.

Christians can be some of the biggest posers in America. We have failed to communicate to the world that being a Christian does not mean that "you have it all together." We are all broken people following Jesus on a journey to figure out what it means to live lives that truly have meaning beyond the mundane. Many traditions have reduced sin to rebellion and have skipped over the fact that people have been sinned against in ways that have left people living as the walking wounded often acting out sinfully as a way to self-medicate pain. As Jesus does, we need to bring the gospel to both pain and sin. We need the gospel to heal the whole person. The fact is that, we're all on a journey of becoming the kinds of people Jesus is making whole and living lives that matter in full harmony with God. We need to embrace the pain of others as if it were our own because Jesus meets people amidst there pain as well."

WOW!! I encourage you to read the entire entry as this was only a small snippet, emphasis mine. I particularly like what he said about being a Christian doesn't mean you have it all together. I am pretty sure that the world has figured this out already, how come the Church has not? The Church is a place for broken people to find restoration, not a place for pious, self-righteous people to compare how many activities they are involved in. It is rehab for sinners. The addiction is ourselves.

If it takes a bunch of jacked up punks to change the world and proclaim the Kingdom of God, how fortunate would I be to be found guilty of being a jacked up punk?