The Escape

God built an escape route from godlessness to paradise, defined it with holy places, made a map of them, established a Church, entrusted the map to the Church and gave the leadership of the Church a mission. The mission was to facilitate the escape - not to frustrate it, not to filter it and not to foul it up. Leadership is the grease for the wheels of the escape and not an obstacle in its way (Isaiah 57:14). If leadership gets in the way of the escape, the children of Adam and Eve go around them, over them, under them and through them. Leadership makes itself irrelevant. The escape from godlessness to paradise is primary. Nothing else matters. Everything else is secondary. Anything that interferes is suspect. Only by making our escape from holy place to holy place that define the escape route from godlessness to paradise can we be sure that we are heading in the right direction. The movement of the escape forms the needle of the compass that always points to God.

Christianity is the new exodus that is marching through the Valley of Tears, across the Red Sea of death, and into the promised land, hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm together as one family to the rhythmic beat of the loving heart of our living God! Rejoice and be glad!