When we were growing up we used to sing a song that went, "I will make you fishers of men, fishers of men, fishers of men. I will make you fishers of men if you follow me."
I haven't heard this song sung in decades. Probably because we have stopped fishing for people. We have stopped fishing, folks.
What have we done instead? We praise Jesus. We worship Jesus. We proclaim, "Christ above all!" We accept Jesus as Personal Lord and Savior. Our Christianity has turned into an exclusive club membership! We have stopped doing what Jesus actually told us to do in order to fish for people. FOLLOW HIM!
Why? Because following Jesus is hard. It is dangerous. It means taking up the cross. It means going against empire. It means being crucified. It means offering one's life as a ransom for many.
Jesus is, right now, waiting for you and me to follow him to Galilee. By the sea. To fish for people.
Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized and Occupied Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares; to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration; mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flowerpots; rifle barrels into flutes; U.S. Military Army Jeeps into Filipino Mass Transport Jeepneys.
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