Welcome to the Resistance
[I wrote this in November 2009 as a performance piece, intended to be read aloud. I always wanted it to be longer, but I now think that it would be more powerful to have different perspectives on what the Christian faith is intended to look like lived out.]
Welcome to the Resistance
We resist a faith without heart
Without legs
Without Jesus Christ at the center
As the why, the what, and the how
The Alpha and the Omega
We resist a “god” impotent to change
A Church impotent to redeem
A world impotent to save
No longer will we close our eyes
Waiting for an answer
I AM is the answer
I am the answer
The resistance begins with me
Giving my life to You
No longer will I allow:
My heart
To be unchanged
My soul
To be unplumbed
My faith
To be untested, untried, unused.
Untrue to the faith to which Jesus Christ has called me
[He has called you, too]
I resist
A faith without growth
A faith without Spirit
A faith without repentance, accountability, vulnerability
A faith without community.
Welcome to the Resistance
We resist apathy
Atrophy
Trophies for our works,
Filthy rags in lieu of righteous deeds
Lord give us,
Transformation
Desperation
Affiliation
A life worthy of imitation
Imitating You.
Welcome to the Resistance.