What Jesus calls us to when we're most frightened.
Mark Galli | posted 4/17/2007 11:35AM
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Mark Galli is managing editor of Christianity Today and author of Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untameable God (Baker). This article was adapted from a sermon given at Church of the Resurrection, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, on April 15, 2007. You are welcome to comment on this article below or on Mark's blog.
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This event, and article, remind me of the lyrics to a great song by the group Rush.
"Lock And Key"
I don't want to face the killer instinct
Face it in you or me
We carry a sensitive cargo
Below the waterline
Ticking like a time bomb
With a primitive design
Behind the finer feelings
This civilized veneer
The heart of a lonely hunter
Guards a dangerous frontier
The balance can sometimes fail
Strong emotions can tip the scale
[Chorus]
Don't want to silence a desperate voice
For the sake of security
No one wants to make a terrible choice
On the price of being free
I don't want to face the killer instinct
Face it in you or me
So we keep it under lock and key
It's not a matter of mercy
It's not a matter of laws
Plenty of people will kill you
For some fanatical cause
It's not a matter of conscience
A search for probable cause
It's just a matter of instinct
A matter of fatal flaws
No reward for resistance
No assistance, no applause
[Chorus]
Jerry
Posted: April 25, 2007 4:54 AM
Very good article.
Susan B
Posted: April 24, 2007 12:42 PM
Thanks so much for this encouragement. It's helpful to read this perspective when so often I feel like I am surrounded by Christians who are more concerned about being safe than following Jesus.
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