Ordinary Radicals?

As I have previously posted, I am reading the Irresistable Revolution. There are some more parts that I want to post on, so here goes!

When explaining the Simple Way--
"Poet Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because he wanted to live deliberately, to breathe deeply, and to suck the marrow out of life. We went to the ghetto. We narrowed our visions to this: love God, love people, and follow Jesus. And we began calling our little experiment the Simple Way.----- We hang out with kids and help them with homework in the living room, and jump in open fire hydrants on hot summer day. We share food with folks who need it, and eat beans and rice our neighbor Ms. Sunshine makes for us. Folks drop in all day to say hi, have a safe place to cry, or get some water or a blanket....We reclaim abandoned lots and make gardens amid the concrete wreckage around us. We plant flowers inside old TV screens and computer monitors on our roof....We see police scare people, and on a good day, we find an official who will play wiffleball with his billy club...We try to make ugly things beautiful and to make murals instead of violence."

How cool is that?! I can't imagine how awesome it would feel to be in total community! Later on he says...

"Most of the time, though, I think that if what we are doing seems radical, then that says more about the apathy of Western christianity than about the true nature of our discipleship. And this is why "radical" has to be coupled with "ordinary". Our way of life was so typical in the days of the early Jesus movement....Christendom seems very unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously."

It is so true...

One point he makes earlier in the book is...what would our world be like if people stopped and said, "What if we lived like we believed Jesus really meant what he said?"

Why is it that we look at what they do and think...wow! That's sooo cool! But it should be ordinary...that should be how life is. Not just some group of radicals...ordianry people and everyday life.

How would this world be if we took what Jesus said seriously? What if we really did love our enemies? Or if we sell everything we have? How would things be changed?
Some things to think about...
~Lola~