Missional: it sure aint velveeta

Another flash back…from nov. 06

Homemade salsa cheese sauce might not be as smooth as melted cheese product but it sure does taste yummy.

I was jonesing for some cheese dip to go with the tortilla chips we had up in the cupboard and I know from experience that you can’t just melt cheese unless you want a hard lump of rubbery nastiness. My craving was so compelling that I decided to put the effort into making it from scratch (not really hard so don’t be too impressed) by mixing up a base of flour and butter, adding milk and then melting shredded marbled cheddar and finally adding some jarred salsa.

It doesn’t have that nice smooth texture and the color is a bit “off ” but oh is it tasty - just what I wanted.

*as everyone in the crowd glances around at each other with uncomfortable grins, nodding tenuously, the cheese dip crazed woman explains the meaning of her parable*

We in Christianity often just want to get down to the business of doing church. We long for throngs of spiritually starved individuals to come pouring into our church. We ache for the “lost souls” to “find Jesus” and to that end, we grab some leaders from the grab bag of Christians, heat up some church as usual and call it a day. But somehow it’s just not all that satisfying.

Being missional is hard work. Getting down and dirty in people’s lives, giving everyone a platform and allowing your voice to form from within the context of community versus individual aspirations and spirituality is not a nice easy package deal. You can’t just cut off a block from the end of the yellow brick and nuke it to gooey perfection. It’s time consuming and risky and generally not very “pretty”. Choosing to live and function IN the world outside the insular walls of the Christian sphere is not a “velveeta in the microwave” endeavor. It’s not as fast, you don’t get instant results and it’s unattractive. But it is so much more satisfying.

….and I still feel that way

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