Plans

So…I promised that I would let you know what my plans are for after school.

Honestly, when it comes to the long term, I’m not completely certain, other than that, at some point, I'm headed to Nicaragua – let me know if you want to come with and work with street kids! Lol.

Short term, though, I have a much clearer picture.

Since long before internship, I have been passionate about social justice issues and the idea that the church, for its own health and survival, needs to actively be engaged with the world’s injustices. There are few subjects in the Bible – both Old and New Testaments – that receive more attention than the subject of justice.

There has to be more to Christianity, more to life, than what the American church generally has to offer. Social justice isn’t just justice for “the poor,” it is also justice for “the rich,” in that it brings reality to the consumer driven life that has so enveloped our culture.

Some of you have seen my thoughts on the subject pinned down on paper and ink, but I believe to the core of my being that my response needs to be more than that. For at least one month this fall, I need to live and breathe social justice issues and invite other people to live and breathe them with me.

Imagine, if the passion that comes after a ministry trip could be sustained and tempered for just long enough to form into cool conviction. Imagine if there was more to being a Christian teen than doing "church things" on Sundays and Wednesdays. Imagine if it cost something to follow Christ.

Imagine if the cost was worth it.