Radically Happy

Discipling — without the Dis.

We need “religion” to save us from the world — and then Christ to save us from religion.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Stopping leaders
• From sabotaging themselves
• By effectively sharing grace
• Through sacrificial love

Immanuel Approach Memo

Concluding from Uplifted

I am… transported.

The living water of Jesus
Bursting from His broken heart
Smashed me against the ceiling
Of the underground cavern

Atomizing my flesh
Freeing my soul

I look for Jesus.

I see Him
With the eyes of the Spirit

Not just
In the gathered faithful
Or the poor and oppressed

But also
In the hypocritical elites
And flawed reformers

Like me

I gasp in awe.

Realizing our brokenness
Is the very thing
That draws us to Christ
Instead of religion

And rather than despising
Myself or others
For dishonoring His house
Or our Sabbath

I should rejoice

Because now I see.

Everything
That goes wrong
According to the Law

Whether a lost coin
Or a lost child
Or lost innocence

Creates a hole
In our hearts
Where the Grace of Christ
Can break through

And that
Is the best Sabbath
Of all

Finit

Reflection

I feel…

• Complete
• Connected
• Transparent
• Perspective
• Rest

Scripture

“I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 57:15b