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this week we answer a question that comes to us from an unnamed people in chicago   - "since christianity has failed, why bother with all this?"

well, i believe christianity has not failed, i believe it has not been tried.  too many people are willing to condemn christianity for it's failures, and i will admit i take my shots every now and then, while ignoring all the good it has done.  because we only ask "why hitler?" and we never ask "why mother theresa?" we are truly only asking half the question, and we don't want to see the good that has come from faith.  my favorite scripture is romans 12:2 - go against the flow.  when i think of all the world offers, and all christ offers - i see the need to swim upstream and go against the flow.   today, i see people getting out of the church and helping people in many ways - they are not writing checks, they are doing what it takes.  people making sandwiches and taking them to the homeless in different sections of town; suburban churches sponsoring sports teams for inner city youth, and members of the congregation acting as the coaches - even when they have no children on the teams; a team of people in the church joining together to visit lonely people on an AIDS ward, and willingly and openly embracing them; i see people take the truth of christ and openly love others, no matter where they are in life.

so for me, when asked "why bother?"  i simply have to say this - i see people in the church, the new pomo church. changing and reaching past themselves and into the lives of others.  this going beyond themselves is where i desire to be as a follower of christ.  why bother?  because christ bothered with me, and reached beyond himself to redeem me and my walk.  the least i can do for others is get dirty.