Describer and reconciler

I don't think we have to go around convincing people we are right and they are wrong. Even if we really truly feel this is so. I don't think we have to act like it's a battle, even if a really is one. The fact is, if a it is a battle, it is one were it is the strangest kind. It is one were we hope to never hurt our "enemy" (not our enemy at all.) We hope they come and join us. It is Red Rover. Have you played Red Rover?

I think rather than preach, I will describe. I will vision-cast. I will see the future better. I will see it better, because in this Light and with this Love, it is better. From here, the view looks really great. I can see from the mountain. I can see the distant shore. I will describe the land, and the hope, and the Master, and his tender hands, and the way he holds my hands in his.

The points and the counter-points drone on in long debates, but the descriptions of the beautiful Eastern lands, make the eyes shine, the skin flush, and the breath quicken. It's not that the facts aren't important, but it is the faith lived out, seen in community, touched into the life of the truth thirsty, that makes any bit of real difference. We must, as reconcilers, be matching the Reality of the Living Water within, with the parched earth of the hurting world (our neighbors) nearest us.