Jesus Revolution | A Community of Healers | Acts 3:1-10

Do you see the brokenness that surrounds us, hidden often by bright lights, exciting events and blissful ignorance, or do you think I am over-exaggerating? 

The question reminds me of a funny conversation I had with my little bro, Jason, who worships here with his family. At lunch, I asked him, “Are you as tired as I am of seeing trash all over the streets in our city?” To which he replied, “I don’t think I have ever noticed.”

A few days later, he texted me, “Why did you do this to me? Now that I see it, I can’t unsee it, and I see it everywhere!” 

Whether you believe what I am sharing is true or think it is overblown, the reality is that once you open your eyes to see it, you cannot unsee it. 

And even before I shared those several examples, many of you were already affirming the thought in your mind—there is a great deal in need of healing in our metro.

When discussing brokenness, one question often leads to another, and the question of “why” is inevitable. Why do these things exist? If you practise the way of Jesus, then I imagine you think, as I do, that sin has shattered all of creation, especially humanity.

And because of that needed healing, I know many of you want to see communities transformed because broken people and situations are healed and made whole. I truly believe many of us want that very thing in light of what we have seen and cannot unsee. We want to solve it.

But there's a problem with fulfilling that hope: our city's brokenness' often seems too consuming to heal.