Rebel With A Cause

I have a rebelious streak in me. Somehow through my life I have managed to stay out of big trouble, but I have a tendacy to question everything. If I am told not to do something the first thing I want to do is find out why. When I am told to keep my arms inside the rollercoster I immediately wonder exactly what would happen if I didn't. Fortunately my son Joash also has this tendency.

Yes, I did intend to say fortunately. While it is true this characteristic has gotten me into trouble and perhaps it is the very same characteristic that got all of mankind in trouble in the Garden of Eden, it is also true that this desire to test everything has served me well. My desire to question things and to occasionally rebel against the rules because they didn't live up to my standards has also given me a passion for the greatest rebel of all time. Yes, I am talking about Jesus!!

Perhaps it is time Christians stopped following all the rules. Maybe we should begin to question what society and sometimes our churches are shoving down our throat. Jesus did, it was this very thing the Pharicees hated about Him. This guy never accepted the rules just because they were written down, He questioned everything and according to the Pharisees He even broke the rules on several occasions. Maybe when we ask the questions, "What Would Jesus Do?" we will come to a different conclusion.

Jesus would not buy into the stupidity of tolerance (better discribed as blind acceptance), the itiacy of political corectness, and the flat out insanity of valuing everyones opinion about everything. Jesus never changed who He was or what He believed because someone didn't like it or because someone might be "offended."

There goes my rebelious streeking all over the place again, sorry about that, sort of!!