"Who's Right" vs. "What's
Right"?
08/09/07 09:02 AM
I'm finally finishing up Larry Crabb's
The Papa Prayer. (My
daughter, Sarah, had taken it to school with her
right before I finished it. We used to "fight"
over who was going to get to the new World
Magazine first when she was still home as well. I
miss that!)
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this book... wow!
Good stuff!! In the chapter I was reading last night,
Crabb was discussing the account of Jesus cursing the
fig tree which had leaves, the evidence of life, but
no fruit. This was Crabb's take on that account:
Listen to what I believe was going on inside
Jesus: "My Father made people for Himself. He feels
great pleasure when His children come to HIm to find
the fullness they desire. But people have become like
the fig tree: lots of leaves but no fruit. Lots of
religious activity, lots of people crowding into big
buildings to hear the hot celebrity preacher, lots of
concern for doing church right that's causing
division, but only a few people who want nothing more
than to come to Him. (p. 157)
That whole paragraph is outstanding, but I was
especially riveted by the following line:
"lots of concern for doing church right
that's causing division..."
Whoa! What does that mean? I drifted off to sleep
last night thinking about it and I'm still pondering.
. . Several thoughts have come to mind, but I'm going
to save them for another blog.
Anybody want to weigh in. . . what do you think?