Those of us who are winners can change jobs, churches, relationships, houses when it suits us. The poor cannot. They get left behind. In the long term this, I believe, has a destabilising effect on the whole community because nobody feels he belongs or feels safe, even the rich. Everyone fears losing out or being left behind or alone. Deep in our psyche we need stability. We need stable people in our lives. And more and more it has come to me that in our frenetic post-modernist age, maybe one of the callings of Christians is simply to stay put and to be. As Christians our rock is Christ, so we can be anywhere. We don’t need what others spend their lives chasing because we have found the treasure beyond price. We can stay and trust God whatever happens, good or bad, and in denying ourselves in this way, I believe God will restore the community we have lost. There is no quick short political fix for our social problems because it is about people, and it needs hearts to be changed and only Jesus Christ and his grace can do that.
And then more good stuff going on out west, in a church founded for the homeless
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