August 13th, 2009 
dave hola friends and bloggers,
i was watching cnn last night, and what do you know, shane claiborne was on. he was talking about how he and his friends have been combatting the healthcare crisis in america. it was a brief, but very interesting spot on “the situation room” (which i had never seen before last night).
while the story about how they are tackling the issue of healthcare reform was interesting, i was most struck by one comment that he made to the reporter who was following him around. while walking through what used to be a crack house he said that he and his community “practice resurrection.”
that’s just cool to me. it made me realize that we are all in the resurrection business. we are in a constant state of dying to this world and to ourselves and being made alive in Christ, and we have been given the gift of sharing our resurrection lifestyle with those who are living broken and fragmented lives around us.
this means getting dirty. we have to be in real, life-giving community in order to see our own wounds and the wounds of those around us. the “isolated community” (as tdags calls it) found through facebook, twitter, myspace, blogging or even sunday morning church services will never be the answer to our cry for resurrection. we have to come together and speak the truth of Christ’s resurrection into eachother’s lives.
in this way, we will see our brokenness begin to fade away. we must live our lives together, without pretense, centered on the redemptive power of Christ’s resurrection, or we will die in our disease.
-dave-
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