How much does it cost an Evangelical Church to rent Madison Square Garden, the Convention Center of your city, or something like that to put on a conference?
Can you picture Jesus arriving in this year’s car, suit, tie, gel in his hair, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and speaking and “seeing a great multitude around him, ordering them to cross to the other side.
And a scribe came up and said to him: Master, wherever you go, I will follow you.
And Jesus said: Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. (Matthew 8.18-20)
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Then when I say that today’s church is a schizophrenic group, proclaiming themselves announcers of the gospel, I’m the one who’s radical.