Who Wants It (The Gospel)

Another FB comment.

It seems to depend upon your audience. If you are around the “rich” aka fairly comfortable people, then this would definitely be true because knowing God more fully means knowing our interest, desires, and efforts should be upon helping and serving others, especially the weak and marginalized but also helping anyone interested in knowing this God of giving.

However, if your audience is the weak and marginalized then your following and clientele is likely to react in the opposite manner. I think that is why Jesus tended to hang out with the latter, who just might be willing to get to know this God.

Unfortunately, we tend to want to pick our audience from the “rich” and popular so we can be popular with those desirable people, and it seems to us like they are the ones we would need to influence to really change things. We do not seem to really believe the gospel is strong enough to make the weak and marginalized the first and most influential in the Kingdom. Of course it is and when those weak and marginalized find it, they can often be so much more useful to the Kingdom because of their experience toiling in the depths and finding God from there.

So I am talking about much more than trying to ease the burden and suffering of the weak and marginalized. I am talking about knowing their destiny (after knowing and experiencing the gospel) is to be the leaders and backbone of the Kingdom, and our job (if we have experienced this gospel) is to share it with them in a way that is meaningful and understandable to them.

It is our job (if we think we have experienced and know something of this gospel) to figure out a way to make it understandable and meaningful to anyone interested and especially the weak and marginalized, since they are often the most ready and willing to hear it and have the greatest potential to propagate it. Generally, this is not done by reciting creeds or scripture or similar things. It is done by discussing how this God and gospel seems to transform us at our depths, with specific details of how that seemed to occur within us, and then maybe relating that to being the fulfillment of some scripture and possible for anyone.