John 9:2 – Jesus and his crew walk by a blind guy. The guys ask Jesus whose sin it was that caused the man to be born blind.
I’m not sure how these guys knew he was blind from birth. They just assumed it. 
Then they asked one of the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard – Whose sin caused this? His or his parents? Imagine that, a man who sins prior to being born and it causes him to be born blind. Crazy.
One thing is for sure, Jesus’ crew was more interested in WHY the man was blind rather than WHAT they cold do to help it.
We do this a lot don’t we? ’Why is that guy homeless? Is he lazy? Does he drink every dollar he gets? Does he have a drug problem?’ or ‘How did she get pregnant? Where’s the father? What does she plan to do with the baby?’
Rabbi Kushner said God is more interested in our response to pain than giving us an explanation for our pain. We always want an explanation. WHY? But Jesus is saying, WHAT? WHAT are you going to do? WHAT can you do to fix it? Religious people are interested in WHY. Christians are interested in WHAT. Its WHAT, not WHY.
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Hey TJ – great post. Good to see you putting some material out – keep it coming more often. I got carpal tunnel checking back to your site to see if you had posted.
Matt, thanks dude. I just got really busy (and somewhat lazy) and the more I put it off the easier it became not to write. I’ll definitely be updating it more often. Thanks for reading.
TJ
How’s the move to Chattanooga going? Been reading about the launch of the Net and it sounds great….1 year ago, my wife and I moved to Framingham, MA to help out in a new church and it’s been an awesome experience! We have a mutual friend from the hills of Tenneessee (Briant Mora); that guys rocks.