Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Same Place

Jessa Anderson has the bubbly girly Christian singer songwriter thing that I just love when I'm in a girly pop mood. She has a song called The Same Place, and, in talking about brokenness, says that "we all come from the same place"

One thing that post modernism, liberal theology (including neo-evangelicalism), has done is made us seem like we all have different stories, that we come from different places and that we can't possibly all agree. While we do all meet Jesus in different ways and different times in our life, to say that we don't come from the same place is inaccurate, the way I see it.

Don't you remember it? That moment when you were so aware of the darkness of your soul, of the sin that was keeping you out of the heavenly courts. That time when you were so broken that you couldn't see a way out. And what did Jesus do? He met you in that place that you were, and led you to a new place, His place - the cross. Where you were forgiven and redeemed. Where He took the blame for your sin and shattered your darkness. Where His death became life, and His life became freedom.

Maybe I need to break here for a second, because one of the problems with the post modern/liberal school of thought, is that often we never need to get there. The problem of our own sin is minimized. We're told there's a light in us naturally - with or without Christ. But if we never reach total darkness, if we never understand depravity, why would we need to be led?

When we understand that pain, and our own helplessness to heal it, we have no choice but to be led to one place, the same place: the cross.

And every day after that first day, we still have it. We still have that moment of kneeling before the Lord, and if we truly are in Christ, who are we to say we don't come from the same place?

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