Business as Usual

Matthew 3
John dramatic in appearance and rhetoric

Matthew is concerned with prophesy, yes, but also with the dramatic. John’s movement is very cultish. Well, wasn’t it all supposed to be a passing fanaticism? Weird diet, weird cloths, trendy ritual, and so forth a leader who said inflammatory things. And Jesus came.

At first it’s more of the same flashy stuff. I think to myself, things happen so quickly, things seem so exciting in the beginning, large crowds and all. But after he gets their attention then the harder things come. The obedience, this will only work if…

I think society has a three week attention span. Look at big news stories, humanitarian groups have always complained that after an event there is initial show of support and we go, wow! There’s a lot of support or interest, and then about three weeks later it’s business as usual (KONY, anyone?). How long did it take for Jesus? When would it become business as usual?

To be Christian is business as usual.

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