our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.
A single great commission compels us from above
to plan and work together that all may know Christ’s
love.
---Rusty Edwards, 1985
You had one job. If
you take out your preferred google
device and type these words into the search bar, you will be treated to a
veritable feast of flops, a buffet of buffoonery, a truckload of troubles. Go ahead...I'll wait. ‘You had one job’ is social media shorthand for ‘Wow, could
you have done worse at the thing you were supposed to be in charge of?’
There are school crossings with ‘school’ misspelled. Toilet seats installed upside down.
Roadkill painted under the yellow stripe in the middle of the highway. A Back
to School sale sign highlighting a wine
display. Steps to nowhere. Left Turn Only centered perfectly…under a right turn arrow. Someone gets distracted,
and a perfectly good start turns off all wrong. Not because anyone meant it to,
but because some other shiny object charmed instead.
You know, the church (the big one, the church universal), the Body of Christ, does lots of things, in lots of
places, in lots of ways, for lots of reasons. And lots of those things make the
world better, make the church better, make our hearts better, even. But
sisters and brothers. We have one
job. Jesus told and showed us what it was,
over and over, and folks thought it was important enough to remember, to write
down later. Love each other. Love your enemies. Love your neighbors. Love by doing. Love straight through your fear. Love sacrificially. Love
unendingly. Love. Love. Love.
Do not be deterred. We have one job.
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