A Letter to American Evangelicals, From Jesus

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Aug 27, 2024 · 7m

Dear Evangelicals in America,

I've seen what's been going on there lately.

Actually, I've been watching you all along and I felt I needed to reach out because somewhere along the way, something seems to have been lost in translation:

This isn't what I had planned.

This wasn't the Church I set the table for two thousand year ago.

It wasn't the dream I had for you when I spoke in parables about the Kingdom.

It was all supposed to be so very different.

You were supposed to be different.

You were supposed to be a pervasive, beautiful "yeast in the dough" that permeated the planet; an unstoppable…