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Our greatest tool to transform the world

I sometimes wonder how Jesus would engage with the world as it is today. Everything is so fast-paced and noisy – how would He break through that noise?

The fact that Jesus was considered so counter-cultural in His time suggests to me that maybe things weren’t so different then as they are now. Everything around us says that the way to an abundant life is power and control, and accumulating and developing your personal brand for influence. We can be tempted to think that our ideas are the best ideas and therefore others around us should make the choices we think they should make, and then we scoff at their folly when they don’t. As I read the Bible, I see Jesus encountering a world filled with as much selfish ambition and drive for power as we experience today, but without mobile phones.

In the first century perhaps as much as today, what ‘I’ think and what ‘I’ feel is the most important thing. But, Jesus. He says, ‘I came that they may have life and have it abundantly’ (John 10:10). So, what does abundance look like as Jesus modeled it?

It doesn’t look like power and control. It doesn’t look like self-promotion and accumulation. It looks like humility. To love and to serve. That’s His simple, powerful, counter-cultural, counter-intuitive path to the fullness of life. To love and to serve in humility. As His disciples followed in this way back then, they transformed the world and I suspect that to love and to serve in humility remains our greatest tool to continue seeing it transformed today.

Written by SUSIE HOLT