As Christians do we really love the people who go about their daily lives around us? We’ve dichotomized the world into the Christian Church and the World. But are we not all in the same world? We might have a calling to follow Christ, but that does not call us to withdraw from the world into little church bubbles of Christian sub-culture that exist as alien worlds within the greater world. The Church exists to be a dangerous force of love, ready to impact the world through service and caring, and yet perhaps we have turned it into a sanctuary for ourselves where we feel comfortable and safe. Within this bubble we lose touch with those around us, and we become strangers to them. We speak with our own language (Christianese), we have our own customs, and we have very little in common with those we seek to love. What we offer seems very foreign indeed because we have come to show God’s love in the context of our own cultural bubble, rather than a deeply powerful love that impacts the cultures of the world around us.

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