My wife and I bought weekend passes to Film Faith and Justice 2007 here in Seattle. I’ll be blogging about the highlights from each day. Here’s day one…
Tonight, we heard Shane Claiborne (author of The Irresistible Revolution). He spoke at our church in Michigan a couple of times, so it was nice to hear a familiar voice sharing some familiar stories.
But there was one story I hadn’t heard before, and I doubt I’ll be able to get it out of my head…
Shane was visiting churches in Iraq when he said to one of the pastors there, “I had no idea there were so many Christians in Iraq.”
The pastor replied, “You Americans didn’t invent Christianity. You just domesticated it.”
Then he said, “We pray for the church in America. We pray that you will be the people of God, that you will be people of peace.”
What does it say about us, when Christians living in one of the most dangerous places on earth feel compelled to pray — for us?
What does it say about us, that Christians who have experienced real peril look at us and pray that our faith will be undomesticated?
And what does it say about me, that I pray so little for the church in Iraq — a church that’s in danger of disappearing?
Ben Irwin 