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Watched the end of Indiana Jones & #TheLastCrusade last night. It explains A LOT of what I'm seeing among church folks and what they think drinking from Jesus' cup looks like.
If you haven't seen the movie, the bad guy grabs an ostentatious and beautiful chalice, believing that it is the Holy Grail. He wanted to drink from Jesus' cup of glory, not His cup of suffering. And because "he chose poorly", he shrivels up and withers away in puff of smoke.
I see so much of the American church in that. We want the glory without the suffering. We're just like the bad guy in Indiana Jones. We're also just like James, John and Peter... we want to be the greatest, we want to be at the right hand of Christ on a heavenly throne but...
