Jesus's Way

A Radical goes to the roots, Finds out the base of things, Lives by the original source Cuts out adclitions, revisions, rationalisations, Goes back to the basic beginnings. A Radical is not a RevolutionarY. A Revolutionary secks achievable changes After which all will bc well, A Radical seeks continual change Because everything will never be right. The Revolutionary works for One great hcave to overthrow lhe stotus quo. The Radical persistently revolutionises everythirrg. The Radical is not a liberal, A Revisionist, or an Enlightener. A Radical does not trust The evolutionary processes of humanism, The "discoveries" of science-based technology, Thc mutual manipulation of sociological theories, Personal growth, sc lf-fu I fi I me nt, self-enrichment, "ex pcrie nces". Radicals know thernsclvcs too well To trust any of thcm. .lesus was a Radical. He went to the roots of everYthing, Simp ly, without prcvarications, Demanding that basic human solidarity be respected and held to like the bond-word of onc person to another, like the commitntents of Sisters and Brothers, like the rest after labour that bodies need.

Jesus was a Radical. He pointed away from himself To a reality and a dynamic to which he was obedient Which he called "God's Kingdom", "God's Rule" A Radical Reality in which thcre could be now equality between all people, raising up of everyone's gifts, sigrrificance within thc secular, forgiveness 1'or the offender" Jesus proclaimed a new radicalism needed by the ncw Kingdom 'A radicalism of total commitment to that which was sure, though invisible, for for everyone, though few knew it, all time, but esfecially now. JOHN VINCENT