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107741389       Flying upside down is uncomfortable.  It’s hard to keep your feet on the rudder pedals, debris falls up (down) toward your face,  and you struggle to adjust to your view of your instrument panel even though relatively speaking it is the same.  Your eyes strain to the new orientation of the horizon and while all that is going on, the only faith you have not to fall down through the canopy toward the earth is the four strap harness holding your legs and shoulders firmly inside the cockpit.

            The purpose of taking student pilots up in the air and turning them upside down (among other things) is to give them a view of the new world they are about to operate in.  It can be unnerving, confusing, and disorienting, but no less necessary if you want to become a military pilot.   Carrying the cross of Christ requires a similar ability - the ability to take what is an old comfortable way to so many, and to turn that world upside down so that they too may get a new perspective on where their spiritual horizon is and the faith required to hold them there.   

            In Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book, The Cost of Discipleship, he concluded, “The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.”  Bonhoeffer may have drawn from the book of Acts where Luke makes reference to the same idea. In Chapter 17 we find Paul and Silas in Thessalonica where an angry mob from the synagogue of the Jews, after seeing all the conversions of Paul’s preaching, storm out to the house of Jason in hopes of finding them.  Since Jason and some of the brethren were all they could find, the Jews dragged them out in front of the city authorities and said, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” 

            The Jews in Thessalonica felt their world was being turned upside down without realizing their view had been inverted all along. Turning the world upside down for those who cannot see Jesus is in actuality turning their world right side up, so that their view is now fixed on Him; up in the heavens, seated at the right hand of the Father.  The Jews had the right concept; their world was being turned upside down so that they and others could see the Christ they had been looking for all along.  Paul and the Apostles used the Gospel to turn the world upside down - we should be no less aerobatic.

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