whycrass?

I've been thinking about starting a blog for some time now. When I was a young man (a VERY young man - barely so) I had an ambition to be a reconizable musical figure. This ambition became a minor reality, and the musical group I "created" enjoyed a very miniscule amount of success for a few years. This monker "crass" was the name I employed for my essentially fictitious music publishing and record company, "crass music/crass records". It was an acronym which stood for "christians rebelling against a sick society". I have used this acronym in many contexts since, and it seemed applicable to this blog which I have finally taken the first steps to present to whoever might find it. After living with the society my acronym comments on for 46 years, I am more convinced today than ever that it is so. This does not in any way minimize the existence of the positive, or the moments of grace that we all experience. But the presence of sadness and suffering and the intrusion of death and misery into what was originally intended to be paradise has convinced me that this "sick"-ness of society is pervasive. And we as members of this society are all responsible for it. But that "sick"-ness is not all I hope to write about in this blog. It is much more about the previously mentioned intrusion of grace that charms my soul and inspires my heart. You will find out quickly that I am a man deeply in love with the word of God, and that there is much that God has said and is still saying about how one "rebels" against the pervasive sickness of society. The rebellion of Christianity against a society gone awry is a rebellion of truth, faith, hope and love. Truth, because Jesus said He IS the truth. Faith, because without faith it is impossible to please God. Hope because the cross of Christ has birthed hope in all of our hearts. And Love, because God IS Love.