HERE’S NOT A Thing Wrong with the Millennium Development Goals. Today I’m supposed to blog about ‘em and there’s nothing wrong with ‘em…

Except they are not our job as Christians.

I think they are all cool deals. But it’s not my job to get the Gov’ts of the World to take your money away from you (via tax) to enforce my version of the Gospel in some lefty Theocracy.

Period.

It’s my job to feed the poor around me.
It’s my job to serve Christ as he comes to me in the face of women and men daily.
It’s my job to treat everyone like God, present and active in the world with me, the icon of God present to me in my life.
It’s also your job to do this.
But it’s not my job to make you do this against your will.
And it’s not my job to waste my time making other people do it.
And it’s not my job to judge you for not doing it.

Truth be told, we (Christians) are supposed to be so good at doing it that we shame the rest of the world into doing it with us and giving glory to God for seeing us do it.

Instead, we file law suits against each other over property
We bicker with each other over dogma.
We refuse to talk to each other over our Lord’s table.
We diss each other over issues of sex and morality.
We bite and gnaw at each other over issues of “territory” and alien episcopal supremacy.
Instead we pay millions of dollars to build huge temples of gold and silver with vestments of fine silk and linen.

When all we are told is to love one another as we love God: and when was the last time I spent as much money to house you as I’ve spent to buy Church Stuff?

Then we stand up and tell the world “you should be doing what we should be doing.”

Pot? This is the kettle. You’re black and you have a mote in your eye.

Pardon me for mixing metaphors.

We have a job to do and we’re not doing it. But I bet we feel good blogging about the Millennium Development Goals.