Signing Up

Lately, I've been signing up for things – mostly free, but not always.

You have to sign up first; then you can sign in whenever you like.

I have noticed that if I don't sign-in for a while, I sometimes have to sign-up again.

It is really nutty … I am trying to find parallels to participation in the Kingdom of God here and the easy ones come easily … but the really hard ones … are really hard.

Something about the whole thing of an easy sign-up and a simple sign-in seems incongruent.

Something about that long list of affiliations sitting somewhere in my in-box and databases … many forgotten, just strikes me as qualitatively different than the call to oddity that is the essence of holiness.

If being a disciple is nothing more than signing up and signing in, then I am reading a different four gospels