I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t all that receptive yesterday to the idea that Michael Vick has now “found Jesus.” The first words out of my mouth when I saw that someone had said this on my blog yesterday, was “And so did Paris Hilton.” Now here are my problems:
First, we’ve all got a track record with those who have made such claims who show no sign Jesus was making a claim on them with anything like what we could call “effective.”
Third, something “we” haven’t yet announced is that for most of the summer “we’ve” begun each day working on a book we are calling Forty Days with the Jesus Creed. It’s a short book of daily readings that show how the Jesus Creed wasn’t just something Jesus said but something the earliest Christians worked out — so we explore how it impacted Paul and Peter and James and John.
Fourth, here’s the real problem. Here was the text I wrote about yesterday morning.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (1 Cor 13:7).
How does a Jesus Creeder respond to statements like Michael Vick’s?