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coffeeRadical’ is a word my generation has used a lot. Everything we were going to do as young people was radical. Every change we made, every cause we took on was radical. However, over time as life crept in and the reality of life hit me I have become convinced that ‘radical’ as defined by the world, has very little to do with the way God works. That’s not to say the Christian life isn’t radical. It most certainly is, but there is a glorious ordinariness to the radical.

It is easy to add the modifier ‘radical’ as a means of giving whatever it is an air of importance or difference. For instance when we add the word ‘radical’ to discipleship we do so as a way to convince people we’re doing it differently. Often emergent Christianity refers to itself as radical as a way of differentiating itself against traditional church. The same is true of radical prayer, radical living, and radical giving. The thing is, if our discipleship is true to what Jesus summoned us to then it doesn’t need to be described as radical because it is by its very nature radical! When Jesus told the crowd, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me” he was inviting them to a completely different way of life. A life so remarkably different to the world around them that it, without having to say anything, radical!

What am I saying? If something is radical then it is recognisable for what it is. If we feel the need to define what we do as radical, there’s a strong chance it isn’t and we’re looking to market something to a certain audience.


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