Be Indignant

What is therefore, our task
today? Shall I answer: “Faith, hope, and love”? That Sounds beautiful. But I would say —— courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be
the whole truth. Our task today is
recklessness. For what we as Christians
lack is not psychology or literature… we lack a holy rage—- the recklessness
which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies
prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth…
a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God’s earth,
and the destruction of God’s world. To
rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are
sagging with food. To rage at the senseless
killing of so many, and against the madness of the militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of
death and the strategy of destruction peace.
To rage against complacency. To
restlessly seek that the recklessness that will challenge and seek to change
human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom
of God. And remember the signs of the Christian
Church have been the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish… but never the
Chameleon.

(

The Irresistible Revolution
, Shane Claiborne, pg. 294)