Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Exposing the Wizard of Oz

"What if an adolescent we know actually does identify with the God of the cross, and therefore does love something truly, with the kind of passion that exposes all lesser loves, including greedy, self-fulfilling ones on which human society stands?

Mimesis (imitation) of Jesus Christ does not create 'good teenagers' or 'wholesome youth programs.' It creates radicals and prophets - people who reveal the root of cultural deceits with the searchlight of Christ's love, and who unmask avarice, violence, rivalry, and smallness, exposing them like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. And like the Wizard, the ideologies of self-fulfillment can no longer intimidate once the humbug has been revealed." - Kenda Creasy Dean, Practicing Passion

What if this started happening in our student ministries?

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