In the streets

Jesus’ church was in the streets. He stirred up crowds and inspired folk to act and to believe in a new world and a new order. Jesus confronted the power of the Roman Empire and pushed into the cracks that had already begun to appear in that mighty power structure.

So we know history and we see how history continues to happen. We know how insidious power and privilege can be and how hard they can be to give up. The message of Jesus continually needs to be alive in the streets.

Right now we have a global non-denominational church, still in the streets and led by ordinary folks who are asking the same things Jesus did. Any change that will happen will depend completely on the will and the courage of each of us as we spend our own time in “the streets.”