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SOMA School one man's experience

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At the urging of my cousin-Vinny, I left San Francisco for a week and moved into a missional community school; SOMA.  (Thanks Vince.)    Yeah, that’s right I missed a Sunday of being in community with Lighthouse, missed my daughter’s 5th grade “Outdoor Ed” send off, Scott’s sermon on Ephesians and a date night with Julie, so that I could do life with people I had never met.   I’ve been to these conference things before, where you get a hotel room, rent a car, spend 4 hours or so each day discussing techniques, hearing motivational speeches, learning programs for the next generation MegaChurch, then retiring each evening to the privacy of your room and a sense of completing a corporate church thing. That’s not what this was.   And after this week, it will be a long time before I go back to one of those conference/seminar/selfhelp/how-to-do-church-the-new-and-improved-way.  A very long time.

I'm A Good Person What More Do You Want?!?!

The following constitutes my closing remarks from my sermon last Sunday.  It really should be taken in the context of how an apologist, skeptic, and Christian would interact with this question.  These closing remarks assume a deep conviction that all of us are a complexity of good, bad and ugly and beautiful.  We are broken pieces of the image of God. 

"Brent the Rhodes Scholar and I were sharing back and forth on this subject and he said to me, if one of his colleague informed him, “I’m a good person, what more do you want?” His reply would be deceptively simple. “If you are a good person, you do not need Jesus.” 

He says, “People should not try to convince good people that they need Jesus, because good people simply do not need Jesus.  Jesus is for bad people.