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Do you ever feel like a character from Rudolph\u2019s Island of Misfit Toys? Feel like an outsider who often finds yourself living on the margins, chronically misunderstood by all the other toys who aren\u2019t on Misfit Island?<\/p>\n

Me too.<\/p>\n

A lot of the time, I feel like a Jack-In-The-Box named \u201cCharlie\u201d:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nIt strikes me that central to the human condition is a need\/desire to be part of a tribe, to be included, and to be valued for your own uniqueness. As I look back, I can see that through each of the chapters I\u2019ve experienced I have consistently sought feelings of belonging, acceptance, and identity. I\u2019ve always wanted to be part of the tribe.<\/p>\nBut, more times than not, I\u2019ve looked to my left and to my right only to realize that I\u2019ve typically found myself pushed to the margins.<\/p>\nNot quite in. Not quite out. Sort of a \u201cno mans land\u201d. The harder I worked to feel \u201cin\u201d, the more I realized I was \u201cout\u201d. Which, only exacerbated the unquenched longings of the soul for someone who doesn\u2019t realize they are a misfit toy in the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\nPerhaps the most freeing moment of my life, was standing in front of the mirror and finally seeing the reality that I\u2019m a jack-in-the-box named Charlie\u2026<\/strong> and that the sooner I quit wishing my name were Jack, the quicker I stopped pretending my name were Jack\u2026 the sooner I could get busy figuring out what being a kingdom person is all about. <\/strong><\/p>\nAs I\u2019ve continued to walk this road, I\u2019ve discovered some truths which not only make being a misfit toy in the Kingdom of God more bearable, but actually beautiful and encouraging. I have discovered that people who understand they are misfit toys are Jesus\u2019 favorite kind of people.<\/p>\nThe twelve disciples? Misfit toys that included tax collectors who betrayed their own people and violent terrorists (zealots) against the state.<\/p>\nThe people Jesus hung out with? Misfit toys that included prostitutes and drunks. In fact, these people were the friends he seemed to hang out with and shared meals with the most\u2026 so much so, that he was accused of being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+11%3A19&version=NIV\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">glutton and drunkard<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe people who were fascinated with Jesus and followed him around for the right reasons? It wasn\u2019t those religiously superior, but the misfit toys\u2026 a woman who hadn\u2019t left her house in years because she was considered unclean and a cast-off of society, a short tax collector who wanted to catch a glimpse of Jesus so badly, he climbed a tree, a member of the religious elite who realized he was a misfit toy and sneaked out to see Jesus in the night, a prostitute who poured an expensive bottle of perfume on Jesus\u2019 feet which infuriated the disciples\u2026 Jesus loved spending time with misfit toys.<\/p>\nOn Saturday afternoon I had to take my daughter\u2019s bike in to have a new tire put on it. The gentleman who helped us was a very interesting person: a one handed bicycle assembler who said he had the \u201cbest job ever\u201d. Noticing his thin body, gray hair, missing fingers on his right hand and the absence of a good portion of his teeth, I realized he was someone that many would just pass by. And, I\u2019m sure they do\u2013 one of the things he told me as we chatted for a while was \u201cI love this job because they leave me alone\u201d. Yet for some reason, I found him to be a deeply compelling person and inexplicably craved to sit and visit with him\u2026 so, I pulled up a chair, and asked him his story. As we talked, and as he completely refurbished a bike tire with one hand, the thought struck me that this is what Jesus felt like sometimes. He just liked hanging out with the misfits, the forgotten, the overlooked\u2026 the one handed bicycle assemblers.<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>I must had listened to 10 sermons online that week, and did countless passage studies in Greek, but I felt closer to the heart of Jesus as I listened to his story than I had in a long time.<\/p>\nSociety and the religious ruling class have always despised misfit toys\u2026 as the saying goes, there\u2019s \u201cnothing new under heaven\u201d. But Jesus? He loved them. He spent all his time with them. He received them and didn\u2019t condemn them\u2026 in fact, one of the last times Jesus went to church, he told the conservative religious leaders that \u201cthe tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the Kingdom of Heaven before you!\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0A crazy claim, both then and now.<\/p>\nHow is it that misfit toys discover and embrace life in the Kingdom of God before the religious elite? I think it\u2019s for three reasons:<\/p>\n1. Misfit toys know we are misfit toys\u2026 we\u2019re already aware we are outsiders and don\u2019t need a lot of convincing. <\/strong><\/p>\nWe already know we\u2019re outsiders; we\u2019ve already processed the grief of exclusion and have learned to be at peace with it. However, being at peace with being an outsider at the margins has better prepared us to accept the invitation to follow Jesus- misfit toys wait and wait to be invited into the party, to be included and embraced, and when Jesus extends such an invitation, they naturally respond to the offer they always wanted.<\/p>\nReligious elite, on the other hand, are lulled into an intoxicated religious state which causes them to completely miss the invitation, and completely miss their need<\/em> to accept it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1605 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2013\/07\/Parable-of-the-Banquet.jpg\" alt=\"Parable of the Banquet\" width=\"307\" height=\"141\"><\/p>\nOne day, Jesus was having lunch at the house of a religious conservative. While they were eating, Jesus expressed to him this very truth when he told him a story about a man who threw a big party. In the story, the host of the party sent out a bunch of invitations to all the people he\u00a0thought<\/em> were his friends, but none of them showed up to the party. Instead, the man rescinded his invitation to friends, and instead went out into the alleys and streets, inviting in the \u201cpoor, crippled, blind, and lame\u201d, who all responded to the invitation, and came to the party.<\/p>\nThe people you thought would be in, were out- and the people you thought would be out, were in. This is because misfit toys are primed and ready to be a part of the Kingdom of God, and are often first to accept the invitation.<\/p>\n2. Misfit toys tend grasp the message of Jesus easier than the religious elite.<\/strong><\/p>\nAs St. Paul wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n\u201cInstead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBut why is it that misfit toys seem to grasp the depths of the Jesus message more naturally than the religious elites? I contend that while the highly religious tend to latch onto the \u201ceternal salvation\u201d concept of the message of Jesus, it is the misfits who realize the \u201cgood news\u201d gets even better than that.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1680 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2013\/07\/Misfit-Toys.jpg\" alt=\"Misfit Toys\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\">Religious elites? They\u2019re typically \u201call set\u201d in the here-and-now, reducing Jesus to a figure who will one day save us from hell. But misfits? Misfits are driven by a deeper need: they don\u2019t just need a Jesus who can save them later\u2026 misfits want a Jesus who can save them right now<\/strong>. Misfits long, not for the status quo, but for a richer and fuller experience today\u2013 they are dissatisfied in a very healthy way, and crave the \u201cabundant life\u201d Jesus promised in John 10:10. Others? Well, many of them don\u2019t realize they\u2019re actually missing the party.<\/p>\nUnfortunately in the West, the concept of the Kingdom of God isn\u2019t taught very much- or very well. Instead, Christianity has often been reduced to an individualistic transaction which will benefit someone after<\/em> they die- thinking that \u201ceternal life\u201d is a term referring only to an event in the future, when in reality it is always used in the present tense. We are able to enter into, and experience eternal life\u00a0right here and right now.\u00a0<\/em>We are able to bless the world with a little more heaven, or curse it with a little more hell,\u00a0right here and right now.<\/em><\/p>\nMisfit toys get this- we want not only a Jesus who can help us later; we want a Jesus who can help us right now. We want to experience the Kingdom of God right here, and right now\u2026 touches of heaven, right here and right now\u2026 and this unquenchable thirst drives us to discover that Jesus offers exactly that.<\/p>\n3. Misfit toys have less to lose when joining the Kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe way of Jesus isn\u2019t popular, and the Kingdom of God he inaugurated is so radically different than the accepted ways of this world, that actually living like Jesus<\/em> and embracing the ways of the Kingdom of God, will include an element of loss.<\/p>\nThe way of Jesus and the ways of the Kingdom of God, aren\u2019t popular to the world because they are completely upside down to everything that culture teaches us. Instead of a Kingdom that favors the rich and powerful, this is a Kingdom that invites in the poor, blind, crippled and lame\u2013 a Kingdom which doesn\u2019t say the greatest is the most powerful, or the most served, but rather claims the greatest to be the one who is most busy doing the serving<\/em>. The last, is the greatest. The least, is the greatest.<\/p>\nLiving by these principles, isn\u2019t a ticket to popularity. It might even make you unpopular within your own particular Christian tribe- because just as the world doesn\u2019t look very much like Jesus, the Church doesn\u2019t always look like him either.<\/p>\nIf you try to live your life in a way that looks like Jesus, you WILL be a misfit toy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nSpeaking up for the poor? Not always popular.<\/p>\nSpeaking up for the rights of the marginalized? Not always popular.<\/p>\nSpeaking up for immigrants? Not always popular.<\/p>\nRadical nonviolent love of enemies? Not always popular.<\/p>\nCalling the Church to repent of corporate sins? Not just unpopular\u2013\u00a0 this literally and figuratively could be the kiss of death.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nThe more I think of it, the more I realize that Jesus was the first Misfit Toy in the Kingdom of God, because he looked totally different than anyone who ever lived. 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