As we move toward Holy Week and Easter Sunday, read the following poem and reflect on its meaning. Where should we be spending our church energies, time and effort?

Return the Cross to Golgotha

I simply argue that the cross be raised again

at the center of the marketplace

as well as on the steeple of the church.

I am recovering the claim that

Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral

between two candles;

But on a cross between two thieves:

on a town garbage heap;

at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan

that they had to write His title

in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek…

And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,

and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.

Because that is where He died,

and that is what He died about.

And that is where Christ’s men ought to be,

and what church people ought to be about.

If you don’t have Easter plans, join me Easter Sunday morning at 7 am, 8:30 am or 10:30 am.  Details are at locc.co.  Wishing you much love and much light.