People are just people!

Beyond the label, there is the basic thing. VW and Lexas are both cars. An active drunk, an old-timer in AA., and an evangelist are all people. I think we get caught up in the labels and name tags we paste on our shirts. I got sober in AA and I go to meetings occasionally, but I am a church guy. I know the church game. I believe in Jesus with my whole heart and I know my church people. My church people somehow are misguided to think being human is an issue. It is not to Jesus, but it is to us.

We all forget that in the end whether you believe it or not Jesus gets the final say regardless of what we believe. Now words mean things. In this context I mean we are humans who carry gifts and deficits. Some carry some more than others. We are all vulnerable in ways visible and invisible. We factually have no way of judging each other.

I serve in CR as a teacher and group leader. CR is not AA, NA, or OA. No, the church just dumps everything in one pot. My pot is everything else. In AA everything else is taken into account, but not dealt with specifically. The answer is we deal with drinking. Don’t drink and see what effect that has on the other stuff. There is great wisdom in this approach. CR does not do that. Jesus and the Steps are the whole cure. AA would say for goodness sake get some professional help. The church will opt out for the current flavor of the denomination. Some denominations are more reasonable than others.

People are wonderful and complex and often broken in different ways. Churches have by accident perfected denial into an art form. For churches, CR is a God-sent concept. They don’t have to send people out into the world they can offload the troubled into CR for faith-appropriate help. And thanks to Rick Warren CR is an APP to download into any church. Isn’t the tech-friendly church just awesome?

Think, if you think you can handle all forms of human struggle with an APP what are you?

All of us need to take a breath and realize with fear and trembling we are handling precious cargo. These are precious broken people who God the Holy Righteous One loves and cherishes. And we deploy an APP? For us, in CR we need to bring ourselves humble, obedient, pliable in His Hands. Christian arrogance is just not up to the job.