There are more churches in Abbotsford per capita than anywhere else in British Columbia.
Two years ago, I joined the Fridays for Future climate protest outside the city hall. It was a small group of us, around 30? That may be a generous number, I remember it was small. I brought the littles, they needed to start practicing civil resistance. If there is one important skill they must learn for their world, it is going to be this one.
But where were you, retired gospel of salvation folks?
You didn’t show up.
Look at those liberal snowflakes, smiled one as he drove past.
It’s the end times, what can we do? said another as she passed by.
And yet, there has been an enormous amount of motivation in these last days to be concerned about your own personal freedoms. You have the time and energy to hand out flyers about our untrustworthy media. To fly your national flags and banners over the highway overpass, to join the freedom brigade to fight for your right to not wear a mask or vaccinate. You want to cruise again. Travel. Eat out with friends.
My question to you is this; is this the fruit of your gospel?
It is revealing. Indeed, this global pandemic has been unmasking, mind the pun, that your gospel of salvation is perhaps nothing more than veiled self-interest.
After all, you are going to be ok because when you breathe your last; you will be in paradise. This is what your faith tells you.
How do we convince you? You got the good news wrong.
Maybe it's too late to convince you. But imagine for a moment; you get to the other side, and you discover you were wrong. You discover; indeed, that the Holy Three love this world and gave you the task of looking after it.
It's Okay They say to you because They are so good, you didn’t know. And this is true, it's not entirely your fault. But, your loved ones will suffer greatly. This will be the consequence of the great inaction.
It’s not too late to show up for us, or for the Kingdom you claim to give your allegiance to.
When your house is on fire and your kids are upstairs, do you run out to save yourselves? Or, do you do everything possible, even if it means risking your own life, to make sure they are safe?
Be inspired that some in your generation are doing just that with Christian Climate Action.
They are not leaving the job of getting arrested to the young people who have children to care for. They are taking the self-sacrificial stand upon themselves for the generations they are leaving behind.
This will be their legacy.
What will be yours?
When you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go. John 21:18
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