Recklessness and Holy Rage
Recklessness
and Holy Rage
What
therefore is the task of the preacher(or the church) today?
Shall
I answer: “Faith, hope and love?”
That
sounds beautiful.
But
I would say- Courage.
No,
that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth.
Our
task is recklessness.
For
what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature,
we
lack a holy rage.
The
recklessness that comes from the knowledge of God and humanity.
The
ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets…
and
when the lie rages against the ravaging of God’s earth,
and
the destruction of God’s world.
To
rage when little children must die of hunger,
when
the tables of the rich are sagging with food.
To
rage at the senselessness of killing so many,
and
against the madness of militaries.
To
rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of
destruction- Peace.
To
rage against complacency.
To
restlessly seek recklessness that will challenge and seek to change
human history until it conforms with the norms of the Kingdom of God.
And
remember the signs of the church have always been-
the
Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish… but never the chameleon.
By:
Kaj Munk
