Makeesha Fisher, a guest blogger on Jason Clark's blog has a geat 1st posting. Here's an excerpt:

I have recently observed many great, positive changes in the language we use and approach we take in many matters of faith within the Christian church.

One of those positive changes is viewing our faith in a more holistic and whole-life way. Exploring how to expand and advance the Kingdom of God ON EARTH instead of just waiting for Jesus to bring it to us. Seeing what Jesus is doing NOW and joining him instead of asking him to do something that we think he should.

Which stands in stark contrast to the hidden message I have often heard (and continue to hear) when Christians evangelize, talk of evangelism or even in sermons and church meetings, making it sound as if the Church is taking care of people in a hospice and inviting others to join them there....

...Sometimes we do fun things like play shuffleboard, have potlucks or play bingo to pass the time and we spend copious amounts of time creating fliers and books designed to make the hospice as enticing as possible because we certainly don’t want to come into direct contact with the dying “out there”....

....Contrast this with the grand adventure Jesus invites us to join....

...Jesus did not predestine us to eek out a pitiful existence and wait for him to return. He called us to join him on an eternal journey of living and bringing the Kingdom. We don’t just have a “heavenly home” to offer people, we have reconciliation, restored relationships, real hope of real change to bring to God’s aching, weeping, hurting creation. We have vision of destiny and purpose to offer, a life worth living…for eternity.