I know, I know, half of you are mad that I would show such honor to a Catholic, especially the Pope, while the rest of you are angry that I called Nancy Pelosi stupid.  So, let me clear it all up.

            I was being nice—Nancy would need to brain transplant to rise to the level of stupid.  Evil might be a better description.  The queen of the left coast, hero of the City by the Bay, ground zero for judgment in the final days, met the Pope this week and evidently thought it was a good time to show him some family photos.

            I do not care what your belief system is; stupid is a good word for someone who shows personal photos at a time like this.  She probably asked him to be her Facebook friend at the same time.

            “Oh, Mr. Pope, I mean your sometimes holiness, when you are not speaking about abortion, do you twitter?  I am known as @idiotbythebay.  Follow me on twitter.  After all, I sort of follow you the rest of the time.

            “And by the way, when you are going to let a woman serve as Pope?  I volunteer.”

            Oh, I could go on all day, but you get the point.

            As long as people like this are in charge of the government we can only pray that we are not destroyed by our own stupidity.

This statement raises the question, if we are the only Jesus some people will see, will some people ever see Jesus.  The biggest problem we have as a church is that Jesus left us in charge of his kingdom and we have to present his kingdom in an honest way that maintains the integrity of the message—something we seem to have trouble doing.

The news is full of pastors and church members who are having the same problems as the rest of the world—even though we claim to be different.  Our communities are full of neighborhoods where the only Jesus some people ever see is a Jesus lacking in compassion, filled with the sins of the world, looking for more—more money, more food, more cars, more women, more of everything except spiritual maturity and compassion.

I long for the day when I can live the life Jesus called me to live.  I long for the day when the church is the church, living for eternity and not for the power of this world.

Eternity is so huge we fail to believe in it.  Eternity will own us all soon enough—we should start preparing for it now.