In the movie, "The Matrix", Morpheus offers Neo the choice between two pills:
"You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
After reflecting more on the CCDA conference, I feel as if Christian Community Development Association offers people like me the red pill.
The conference "awakens" me to some deep realities that had not been much a part of my conscious thought for a great deal of my life; a new lens on the powers and principalities at play in our world, a closer look at the operating system of the world.
With a closer look at the ways of our world, this "red pill" also opens my eyes to the alternate reality and invitation into the Kingdom of God like nothing else. It invites me to the cross where I die to what I previously thought was life, and it compels me to join the Resistance, the family of Jesus followers, who manifest freedom and real life found in Him via the love found at the cross and the power found in His resurrection.
I feel braver coming away from this year's CCDA conference; more willing to die to myself and this world in order to be an ambassador of the Kingdom. This invitation is so much bigger and more compelling than we tend to make the Christian life in our comfortable places. It doesn't dismiss my need to better learn to love the people right around me...my family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors. Nor does it dismiss my need to continue on the journey of personal holiness and character development. But it does invite me into something much larger than myself. A Kingdom that is advancing against the darkness. A Kingdom found in the reconciling community of faith-filled followers of Jesus who change the world through living out the Kingdom values of love and justice in the fight against the darkness. Sign me up.
"You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
How about you? Blue pill or Red pill?
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