Helping Jesus With His Mission: A Parable for Our Times

Sensitive Internal Memo
To: Adam Glom, Executive VP Reaching the World Marketing Corporation
From: Simon Magi, VP Mid-East Client Acquisitions RWMC
RE: Report on market potential for Joshua Davidson

Sir,

As requested I have been following the work of Joshua Davidson in anticipation that we might reach out to Him as a potential client. Without our help, or presumably any other outside marketing, He has managed to amass quite a following. I’m not surprised given what I’ve seen and heard. This man has thousands eating right out of His hand. His followers literally follow Him from place to place to hear His latest messages. People are being healed and there are even rumors one of His friends was raised from the dead. I confess I’m incredibly excited about the prospect of signing this man.

First, His skill set is like nothing I have ever seen. Second, His market awareness is utterly abysmal. When I think of how far we, I mean, how far He could go with just a few tweaks to His message and method, it’s staggering. It’s like He desperately needs us and the wisdom and insight we can bring to the table.

My suggestion, when you meet with Him, is that in laying out the benefits we can offer Him you provide Him with some examples of improvements He could easily make. This man is no dummy. He’s got a cadre of a dozen close friends, none of whom are in our data base and with them, well, it’s just about all anyone here ever talks about. Remember that desert prophet who would have nothing to do with us? His visibility crashed and burned. Davidson is greater still.

He needs, however, to learn to appeal to the powerful. He has this amazing connection with the downtrodden. The power brokers, however, seem to always get His goat. If He could just get over this barrier there’s no telling how far He could go. He’ll need, as well, to choose His followers more carefully. Some of the people with the worst reputations in town have flocked to Him, which of course turns others off. It’s weird that He seems unable to see how backwards He has things. I spoke with His family, off the record of course, and they said He’s always been a little out there.

Let Him know that we would also want to adjust, just a smidge, His message a bit. He needs to learn to sell the sizzle and stop talking about the stake. His fundraising skills are severely lacking. I watched when this deep pocketed young man approached seeking His counsel. First, Joshua insulted the man, and then for good measure, way over asked.

The kid is green I tell you, but the raw talent is something to see. Then there was the time He blew the use of his loss leader. He’d been feeding these crowds with cheap bread, and all He had to do was pass the hat. Instead He started talking all weird about eating His flesh. The crowd, as you’d expect, left.

I’ll leave this in your hands. I’m sure you can close Him. For all His foolishness He seems like He’s no dummy. With Him by our side boss, I think we could change the world.

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Does God bless and curse those who bless and curse Israel?

It must be true, because this is what God says, isn’t it? Well, actually God says this, “I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you; 
 And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3).

When God makes a promise we can know that it is certain, and that He will not change. The problem is, however, when we hear Him saying what He did not say. This text says not that God will bless those who bless Israel, but those who bless Abraham. Later, however, in Numbers 24, the promise becomes a little more clear. Balaam, speaking about the nation Israel says, “Blessed is he who blesses you. And cursed is he who curses you.”

That should settle the matter, should it not? The difficulty is still, however, answering to whom this promise is made. Does not Paul himself say, “But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel” (Romans 9:6). What could it mean that not all Israel is of Israel?

If some called Israel are Israel, and some called Israel are not Israel, which of these fit the promise? My dispensational friends suggest that the Israel to whom this promise is made matches up with the nation of Israel founded in 1948 in the Middle East.

They hear in this promise that those who bless that nation of Israel will be blessed and those who curse that same nation will be cursed. This, in part, informs the politics of American foreign policy. As long as America sees this Israel as a friend, the reasoning seems to go, God will bless America. When America turns its back on that nation, God will curse this nation.

The Reformed perspective affirms that that Israel which is actually Israel, just as with the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, is those who are in Christ, who trust in His finished work. Though we vehemently deny the moniker, this is what our dispensational friends call “replacement theology.” The Reformed, however, see this is as the outworking of the truth of Galatians 3:7- “Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.” We who are Reformed do not believe God replaced Israel with the church. We believe instead that ultimately there has always been only one people of God, those who believe.

Israel is the sons of Abraham. Those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham. Those who are of faith are therefore Israel. And in turn, those who bless those who are of faith will be blessed, and those who curse those who are of faith will be cursed. It is how we treat the church that matters.

What of ethnic Israel, that country in the Middle East? Many in the Reformed camp hold out hope that God will bring in a great mass of those who are not today the sons of Abraham, that virtually all of Israel will once again become Israel.

What of the nation Israel? There may be any number of geo-political reasons why it would be wise for these United States to be allied with Israel, the nation in the Middle East. There may be multiple connections between that nation and God’s future plans. But this promise, “God blesses those who bless and curses those who curse Israel speaks of the children of Abraham, all, Jew and Gentile, who rest in Christ alone.

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The Single Soul of the Five Solas of the Reformation

That so few are puzzled deeply by the paradox puzzles me. We are so used to the befuddling language that we miss its befuddling nature. It ought to stop us in our tracks and arrest our attention, like those signs I see for Fifth Third Bank. Fifth Bank I could understand. Third Bank I could understand. I could understand them merging to become Fourth Bank, or even Eighth Bank. But Fifth Third Bank? What does that even mean? Perhaps I can mull over the question while enjoying a meal at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.

In like manner, how is it that when our spiritual ancestors, our theological heroes, set out to tell us one thing, they ended up telling us five things, five “solas,” or “alone things”? Suppose I’d lived in a cave for the last five hundred years and met someone who wanted to get me up to speed on the Reformation and what I should believe. What if they said: “There are five things. The first one is sola. . .”? Would I not have to say: “Stop right there. If there are five, how can even one of them be called sola?”

It does, in the end, make perfect sense. The alones are not alone for this simple reason. They are talking, in a manner of speaking, on different wavelengths. An infinite line extends infinitely, but it doesn’t cover everything. An infinite plane extends, in a manner of speaking, even more infinitely than an infinite line, but it doesn’t cover everything. What sola Scriptura seeks to keep out isn’t grace, faith, Christ, or God’s glory. It’s trying to keep out unbiblical tradition. Grace alone doesn’t exclude the Bible, faith, Christ, or the glory of God.

In a very real sense, though they spin on different axes, these five are one. The Bible alone is God’s infallible revelation of His glory, which reveals His grace in Christ, which becomes ours through the gift of faith. God’s grace is uniquely revealed in His Word, which reveals the work of Christ, which becomes ours by faith, all redounding to His glory. The solas are precise and potent affirmations of this truth—it’s all about God.

They remind us not just how we might have peace with God but that peace with God is not the full and final end of all things. They remind us that the story of the Bible isn’t simply how we who are in dire straits can make it to safety and how nice God is to play such an important role in making that happen. Instead, they remind us that He is the end, and we are the means. The story expresses Him and His glory more than us and our comfort.

Jesus makes much the same point in the Sermon on the Mount. He recognizes our weaknesses. We are self-centered, concerned with ourselves and what we perceive our needs to be. So, we worry about what we will eat and what we will wear. We fret about our provision and our status. What Jesus doesn’t tell us, however, is: “Now, look, you have no need to worry about these things because you have someone on your side. Other people might need to worry, but you don’t because my Father in heaven is for you. You can pursue these things with confidence, knowing that you have the supreme advantage of having the supreme being on your side.”

He surprises us. He tells us to set aside our petty concerns. And, depending on how you look at it, to set our minds on one or two things. He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” Do we now have seven solas? Ought we to add the kingdom and His righteousness to the alones? By no means. These are all still together the one thing. The kingdom and the righteousness not only cling together but cling to the five solas of the Reformation.

We are not failing to pursue the kingdom of God when we are seeking after His righteousness. Neither are we failing to pursue His righteousness when we are seeking after His kingdom. We are pursuing one thing— one way— to honor and serve our Maker and Redeemer by affirming our dependence on Him and His preeminence in all things.

The God we serve is one. As such, He calls us to follow one path. His commands are never and can never be pitted against each other. His wisdom is never and can never be pitted against itself, His grace never pitted against His character. When we find ourselves torn, confused, pulled in different directions, it isn’t because we are faithfully following Him but because we are not. We fail to faithfully heed His voice.

The two— His kingdom and His righteousness— are one as the five— the solas of the Reformation— are one as the Three— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit— are One. And these three groupings are one as well. In the end, they are all about the beginning. From the beginning they have always been about the end. For our lives are and always will be bound up together in the Alpha and the Omega.

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YOLT- You Only Live Twice: The Life to Come

Though I’m not the first to do so, I’ve long argued that the mark of maturity is to delay gratification. Dave Ramsey puts it this way, first, you live like no one else. That is, you pay off all debts, know where each dollar is going, live well below your means, beans and rice, rice and beans. Then, when interest is coming in rather than going out, you get to live like no one else, that is, with financial peace.

When we spend more than we make we’re enjoying today what we will have to pay for, plus interest, tomorrow. When we spend less than we make, we will enjoy tomorrow, plus interest, what we’re paying for today. At the end of the day, we must learn the most basic lesson on poverty and prosperity- spending more than you make makes you poor. Spending less than you make makes you rich.

The spiritual reality is both similar and different. Jesus tells us if we would gain our lives we must lay them down (Matt. 16:25). He calls us to store up treasure in heaven (Matt. 6: 19-21). We must embrace humiliation, take up His cross, with the assurance that in the future we will share in His exultation. When we live for ourselves, on the other hand, we will end up with an eternity of unimaginable regret, paying for our sins forever. That’s the similarity.

The difference, however, is here. Every bit of obedience we practice in the here and now blesses us. Every bit of disobedience we practice in the here and now curses us, long before we hit the afterlife. God’s law is not a loyalty test. He doesn’t say to us, “Look, I’ve saved you and you will have pleasures at My right hand forevermore (Psalm 16:11). You owe me. So I want you to abstain from all the naughty goodies. It will be painful, but it will be worth it in the end.”

There are no naughty goodies, only naughty baddies. There is no pleasure to be found in defying God. His law is designed for our well-being. It is an invitation to joy. When we defy His law we are not only making a bad investment that we’ll be paying for forever, but we don’t even get the short term pleasure we thought we were putting on our credit card. Disobeying God is like eating a three layer chocolate cake, knowing that you’ll have to put in three hours on the treadmill, and at the same time finding that the cake tastes like sweaty socks.

Often we fail to practice maturity because we lack faith in the future. We eat the cake today for fear we won’t get another chance in the future. YOLO. Except it’s just not true. You only live twice, YOLT. In this life, while obedience births blessings, those blessings may not always be health, wealth and comfort. Jesus told us that this life will include trouble (John 16:33). Those blessings may be a conscience at ease, a deeper sense of His presence, and even a stronger confidence in His future promises.

The fullest fulfillment of the promises themselves comes in the second life. You know, the one that lasts forever. And ever. That joy of beholding His glory. That freedom from sin. That new, incorruptible body at His return. These things are not only certain and real, but more certain and real than any pleasure we experience in this, our first life. May He grant us eyes to see all the gifts He is preparing for us, and may this prepare us for those gifts.

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Sacred Marriage, Mary; Lawson & Gossip; 70s Packaging

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A Portion of the Hole: In Heaven, and on Earth

I was evangelizing. Not, sadly, about the good news of Jesus, but the message of limited government. I explained that even Marx himself recognized that a free economy created a great deal of stuff. Productivity wasn’t the problem, according to Marx, in the capitalist economy. Instead, the problem was the distribution of the wealth that was created. So far, because I agreed with Marx, my friend agreed with me. Then I used one of my favorite analogies, “So you see,” I said, “capitalism provides, I confess, different sized portions of the donut. Socialism, I’m sorry to say, provides equal portions of the hole.”

The trouble was, he didn’t see the trouble. Trying to help I asked a question. “Would you rather everyone makes $5000 a year, or the poorest earn $100,000 a year, but the wealthiest $10,000,000? He didn’t hesitate. Better everyone at the same spot well under the poverty line, than for some to have more than others.

Egalitarianism runs deep in our culture. We have taken the wise notion of our fathers, that all men are created equal, and twisted it beyond recognition. Our fathers argued the law was to be blind to issues of background and wealth, that justice was for all. The camel nudged its nose into the tent when we began to clamor instead for “equal opportunity.” Now we structure society such that everyone would have to start the race at the same place. When this didn’t achieve the results desired we slipped to handicapping the race such that everyone will finish the same. Now we want an equal ending.

Which may explain why it is that American Christians struggle with the doctrine of election, especially as it is expressed in the doctrine of limited atonement. Our sense of justice does not demand equity or fairness, but is equality, which is often rather unfair. We Americans tend to treat the grace of God the way our school teachers used to treat our treats — we were only allowed to eat them if we had enough for everyone. If God should show kindness toward one human, we reason, He is duty bound to do the same for everyone. Praise God our King transcends these cultural quirks. Praise God He is not subject to the folly of His subjects.

John Owen, in what is perhaps his greatest work, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, goes to great pains to help us see remember God’s divine prerogative, that He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. Because we are all sinners, God owes us all only His just condemnation. But God, who is rich in mercy, has condescended to shower His mercy upon those whom He has chosen, for His good pleasure. To some He shows this mercy; to others He manifests justice.

The American spirit of egalitarianism is not alone in getting in our way. We are a strange bunch, who want at the same time to live in that place where we all receive blue ribbons, but we also want to earn what we have. We are at the same time a bootstrap people. You don’t conquer a continent, after all, by sitting around waiting for your fair share of the donut hole.

This pushes us to sundry forms of Pelagian theology wherein we claw our own way to heaven. These paradoxes are reconciled then when we see that we want God to treat us all the same not because that is our only chance, but so that when we do win the race, we can brag that we did it on our own. It is not ultimately a desire to make God look good in the eyes of socialists that makes us push Him to treat us all the same. Instead it is a desire to make ourselves look good. We want the credit.

While The Death of Death in the Death of Christ dealt a death blow the notion that God treats us all exactly the same, it is the death of Christ that puts to death any notion that we can do it on our own. The death of Christ does not make it possible for all of us to be saved, but certain for none of us. His death doesn’t move us closer to the finish line, and those who are good will finish. No, He died because we are dead in ourselves. Put a dead man just one inch from the finish line, and he will never finish.

Instead, by His death He makes us live. As one wise wag put it, man doesn’t bring the final push to salvation. He doesn’t bring self-generated faith to the party. He doesn’t add his paltry works to the equation. No, what man contributes to his salvation is the need for salvation. We bring the sin that needs to be covered. Let, therefore, no man boast.

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Is there anything wrong with drums and guitars in church?

I am frankly astonished that the worship wars rattle on. The army of praise choruses, light shows and worship bands have left the Psalms, the organ, and our father’s hymnal decimated. The conflict, as with most conflicts, was utterly unnecessary. But it ended for all practical purposes quite some time ago. I am on the “losing side.” It is now harder to find a church that hasn’t bought into contemporary worship than it is to find a church has never been through a split. The landscape is littered with the meeting places, the worship centers of the victors.

So why bother with the question? Because there are a few battle-scarred, dazed, survivors out there wondering what happened.

What happened is that we argued with the wrong arguments, and naturally lost. We objected to the drums and the guitars for at least two bad reasons. First, because we associated them with a rebellious rock culture, we thought they didn’t belong in church, though they did belong in our living rooms. We couldn’t keep them out of the sanctuary because we welcomed them into the rest of our lives.

While not everything in our work week rightly fits on the Lord’s Day (work, for instance), Sunday is not the day wherein we are supposed to be good, and the other days when we are free to be bad. So if they are bad, drums and guitars, let them be bad. If they are not bad in themselves (which I would argue) then let’s not object on the basis that they seem bad to us, or that they are often used by bad people.

The second reason was rather unspoken. Too many of the on the old school side objected to meeting the felt needs of others in the church not because felt needs are unimportant, but because it means our felt needs are not getting met. If the music with which we worship is decided by popular vote, some of us with unpopular tastes are going to lose. But if our argument in favor of our tastes is that they are our tastes, we can’t expect to win. If everyone agrees we should get what we want, there is no use protesting when they are we and we are on the losing side.

My objection, if I actually had one, to drums and guitars would not be that they are drums and guitars. Few traditionalists would object to kettle-drums. Few would object to all instruments wherein tight bands of steel are struck. That, after all, is what a piano does. The issue isn’t the instruments, but the music. The struggle did not end when fifty one percent of churches embraced contemporary worship. It ended when we all bought into the devil’s lie that forms don’t matter, just thoughts; that media carries no message; that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It ended when we determined to watch the lyric front, but give up the music front.

It’s true the evil isn’t in the instrument; it’s in us. Our worship problems do not flow from drums and guitars. They flow from the sad truth that we are shallow, insipid, easily played, safe, boring and sentimental. Jesus, remember, didn’t throw the money out of the temple, but the money-changers. Let us use every instrument we can and communicate the depth, significance, holiness, tender love and awe of the God we worship.

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La, La, La, La, La, I Can’t Hear You- Fingers in Our Ears

The world, Paul tells us, knows what’s coming. Romans 1 not only highlights the universal guilt of all men, but, ironically, defines that guilt as the denial of what we know. We know God is and that we fail to meet His standard. We know, in short, that we are in trouble. But, we suppress that truth in unrighteousness. The Greek word translated suppress suggests something like a heavy metal spring that we try to hold down as long as we can. We get closer to the spirit of our sin if we see ourselves, as God is speaking to us, running about with our fingers in our ears shouting, “La, la, la, la, la; I can’t hear you!”

Consider how unbelievers in the West tend to live their lives. They may not have their fingers in their ears, but they likely have their ear-buds in their ears. They surround themselves constantly with noise. At work, they have talk radio on. In the car, they play music. When they get home, they turn on the television and become distracted with their eyes as well as their ears. They hyper-schedule their days, moving from one thing that demands their attention to another, their smart-phones buzzing and beeping their daily orders for life in cyberspace.

We who have been redeemed, however, live much differently, don’t we? We don’t need the constant noise of pop culture to drown out our own thoughts. Instead we speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. We meditate day and night on the glory, the richness, and beauty of the Word of God. We, who have already received the Pearl of great price, who’ve been promised eternal blessing and the drying of every tear, want nothing more than silence so we can enter into the fullness of the gospel of our Lord. Believers want quiet that we might contemplate the peace. We seek out our prayer closets that we might give thanks.

Wait. Is that what we do? Is that how we live? Or are we instead mirror images of our neighbors? We might, if we are pious, order our pop culture from the PG side of the menu. We might carve out twenty minutes of quiet for prayer and contemplation. But we are still consumed with consuming pop culture, with surrounding ourselves with noise, and for much the same reason. We don’t, in the West, take the time to think because we don’t want to face not just the hard lesson of life under the sun—life is short and then we die—but also the much harder lesson of life lived under the Son—life is short, then we die, and hell lasts forever.

Now, to be sure, we know that we will not suffer for all eternity. That is our neighbor’s fear, not our own. The fears that plague us are much more tame. We worry about our retirement accounts, about our job security. Or we worry about the economy and the Middle East. We worry about our reputations, what people say and think about us. We worry so much that we worry about what we’ll worry about when we get to heaven.

The heathen know their Creator will bring judgment down. We, on the other hand, have been given a book that tells us about His grace. It tells us about all that is ours in Christ, that everything that He brings into our lives is for our good and His glory. Every page reminds us He loves us with an everlasting love and that nothing can thwart His will. This means we should be at peace. We should set aside our worries, remove our fingers from our ears that we might hear the music of the rolling spheres magnifying His name. We should no longer cry out, “La, la, la, la; I can’t hear you!” but, “Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.”

What we need, as we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, is to be still and know that He is God. We don’t need to turn up the volume of His revelation but turn off the noise. We don’t need Him to make bigger promises. Eyes to see what He has already promised we need. We don’t need better, cleaner noise than the heathen. We need silence.

When we stop, take a deep breath, rest, when we put to death our vain desires, vain imaginings, and vain distractions, when, in fact, we not only quit the rat race but finish the race He has set before us, when we draw our last breaths we will hear with perfect clarity what He has been saying to us from the moment we were reborn: “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.” And then we’ll hear heavenly choirs of angels promising, “And He shall reign forever and ever.” Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

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The Smell of Death Surrounds Us: Savorless Salt

When we are yet outside the kingdom, before we’re born again, we suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1). Romans 1 isn’t saying we are stupid. It says we are foolish. We know what we know but because such knowledge exposes our guilt, we suppress it. The Holy Spirit changes us, replacing our heart of stone with a heart of flesh. That same Spirit indwells us, and cleanses us.

But we are not changed fully and instantly. We are still dirty. Guilt still, in ourselves, remains. And we still seek to suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Consider those Australian “ethicists” who published a “scholarly” article more than a decade ago outlining why they thought “after-birth abortion” ought to be considered ethically acceptable.

Their reasoning shows a diabolical logic- there is no real difference between the baby before it is born and after it is born. We are free to kill the child in the first instance, why not in the second? This is a rather telling illustration of Romans 1 level foolishness. It ought not, however, surprise us. We’re dealing with unregenerate people here. This is the kind of thing they come up with.

It seemed however, when that article was published, that Christians responded with surprise to this revolting development. Not just surprised, but outraged, furious, indignant and morally flabbergasted. We wrote learned pieces decrying this new evidence of cultural decline. We cluck and fret on twitter and facebook. And, as is our wont, we miss the point.

Because we are still dirty, we miss the blood on our own hands. If it is true, as these “ethicists” argue, and it is, that there is no moral difference between the practice of abortion or pre-natal infanticide and after birth abortion, or infanticide, why do we, who have been blessed by the indwelling Holy Spirit, get up in arms about one, and yawn over the other? Why the moral outrage over the moral outrage du jour, and the lack of moral outrage over the moral outrage of our generation?

We in the church are blind because we walk backwards, in the face of a decadent culture, drawing perpetual lines in the sand, boldly declaring “Thus far, and no further.” We’ve done it so many times we have forgotten where we came from. Our salt has lost its savor, and we are trodden underfoot. We find abortion, the murder of babies in their mothers’ wombs, has, by virtue of the church’s relative ease on the matter now become distasteful, uncouth, and normal, like Playboy magazines behind the counter at the convenience store. The Australian “ethicists” are not pushing the boundaries of their ethics; they are embracing the norms of our ethics.

We expose our hypocrisy, our callowness and shallowness when we protest after-birth abortion, sex-selection abortion, partial-birth abortion, late-term abortion, unsafe, unregulated abortion, Obamacare funded abortion, all the while living a business-as-usual life in the face of babies being butchered in our neighborhoods every day. The evil of killing babies is that they are babies, no matter their age, no matter whether they are born, no matter how they came to be, no matter what butchering technique is used. We, the living, must repent. Lord have mercy on our souls, and the souls of the babies we destroy.

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Sacred Marriage; Honor & the Good Life; 1 Point Sermon

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