It is that sacred time of day we in the out-of-the-home working world call – lunch hour. I am reading N.T. Wright’s new book Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense and listening to CCR’s Sweet Home Alabama and strangely the two go well together. Now the Boss has come on and he’s singing Dancing in the Dark and this works too.

 

I have known for a while that I was in need of reading Wright. I am a mere 9 pages into the book and I can tell why already. His work is sublime and profound. I will keep you posted. The first part of the book is about justice as an echo of God’s ancient voice in our lives.

 

I wonder if only Christians read books subtitled – "why Christianity makes sense"? Probably. I don’t imagine agnostics and atheists read similarly self-titled books. It is Christ’s call for us to "go into all the world and make disciples of all nations…" that has us so pre-occupied with the content of God’s message and communicating it in a contextually relevant way. God is a contextually relevant God – after all His act of incarnating was the most contextually relevant form of evangelism ever. Being God He could have chosen any number of ways to deliver His message but He humbled (some would say humiliated) Himself and became a human. Wild.

 

BTW – If you were ever wondering – "hmmm, what is a Christian?" well tune in this Wednesday evening to CNN as Anderson Cooper Live asks that very question. It’s a two-part special starting Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET (9 PM central). Don’t forget the source you will get your info from. I would suggest you turn to the Bible and read about it there as well – check out Acts 11:26.