If Jesus came back today and joined one of our parishes how would he behave? Could we imagine him on the finance committee, submitting articles for the Link Up, joining our baptismal team, taking charge of our Prayer group or volunteering to decorate the Church for Christmas?. Everything we do for the church is important, but on a scale of one to ten, we are probably not reaching our full potential as Christians…not by a very long chalk! Christianity has become all too comfortable. We’ve inherited our Catholic culture from our parents and our grandparents and it comes packaged in nostalgia and sentiment. We tend to visualise Jesus the way he was depicted in our religion books in school, and think of him as permanently gentle meek and mild. The uncomfortable truth is that if Jesus joined one of our parishes today he would probably not be doing any of the things we consider important. It’s likely he would shake everything up big time! Could it be that as Christians we have become   complacent and comfortable? Today we are reminded that Christianity is not just about joining Church groups and reading at Mass. Christianity is about real life and death issues, it is about more than looking good and doing the ‘right thing.’ Every job we do to help others is important no matter how small, but Jesus had a burning desire to change the world in the face of great opposition, and it’s our job to keep that fire alive.