If the people around Jesus,
including His family, thought He was crazy; and if Paul understood that others
would think him a fool for Christ – why are we reluctant to identify with the
foolish Paul and the crazy Jesus? The Gospel is foolishness to men (1Cor
1:20ff); yet we want the Gospel to be respectable so that we will be
respectable. So we clean the Gospel up and remove sin and repentance from it so
as not to give offense. It is only as we love others enough to appear foolish
in their eyes that we will be broken enough to allow the light of the Gospel to
shine through our earthen vessels (2 Cor. 5). When we seek to preserve
ourselves we cannot save others.
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