Reflection for June 12

The Jesus Movement language is a metaphor, an image. Images, metaphors, Marilou’s forms of symbolic speech are a way of helping you get at some more deep and sometimes complex things in accessible and memorable ways. This Jesus Movement isn’t a 21st-Century invention or a Michael Curry rhetorical concoction…. We’re really talking about going forward as a church by going back to our deepest roots as disciples of Jesus Christ. And in the run we will find our true strength, vitality, and integrity for faithful, authentic and effective witness to the way of Jesus in our time.

We’re really talking about reclaiming the heritage of the Acts of the Apostles. The heritage of the movement of people who were profoundly convicted by this Jesus of Nazareth because this dude really did have something to say and really did help folks get closer to God and each other. That this Jesus of Nazareth really mattered and matters (The Most Rev. Michael Curry, speaking to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, June 8, 2016.  You can find a fuller excerpt of his remarks HERE).