Thank you, Jesus, for the cross.

Here is today’s Bible reading: Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20; Luke 11:37-12:7; Psalm 78:1-31; Proverbs 12:19-20.

Luke 11:45 (NIV)
One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also.”

Jesus wasn’t nice.  He wasn’t politically correct.  He spoke the Truth.  Sadly, our culture sacrifices the Truth for being nice and politically correct.  We are much poorer for it.  The church needs to be a place where relationships run so deep that we can speak the truth in love to one another even when that truth hurts.  It isn’t Christlike to just relate to each other on the surface and play nice.  If we are to follow the example of Jesus, we will be confrontational.  That confrontation must be in the context of love.