The CEO that Bails ME Out

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Take a good long look.  This is what “bad news” looks like.  These are the top bank executives that have in recent years loaned to just about anyone with less and less bank capital to technically loan out with hopes that everyone that borrowed from them could pay all their upside-down monster-sized mortgages on their McMansions.  Surprise, surprise, it didn’t work.

Now we’ve handed these guys hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled asset relief, hoping to see banks get back into the business of banking again, but so far, it seems Americans were only paying for the banks’ top exec year-end bonuses!  Yech!

The term “bailout” has been on my mind a lot lately.  I guess because its the hot topic on all the news sites and at watering holes throughout the nation.  Bailout.  What a term.  As you begin to really ponder the meaning of the word, spiritual overtones begin to emerge.

I’ve been asking myself how a Christian – a missionary – might respond to the mess we’re watching unfold in this nation and around the world.  Big Bank and Big Business corruption, Washington’s fits and starts, a nation-wide credit card debt crisis, a slow fading of international trade and trust…and bailouts.

Think for a moment about your own financial story.  “Where is MY Bailout???” a friend on Facebook noted on his status.  Wouldn’t that be nice?  Wouldn’t that be grace?  What is the CEO’s of Big Business and these top level bank executives bailed you out?

God’s overarching story is about a CEO – THE CEO of the Universe (props) – giving up his wealth and glory, and bailing us out.  He refused greed, ambition, and honor, and instead took on the disgrace and shame meant for us.  While American CEO’s are refusing to accept responsibility and act to repair their damages, God sacrifices everything he’s got to try to mend the problem he didn’t start.  God not only went bankrupt, he died to cover our debts, to balance our budget, and to hand to us a heavenly inheritance.

…and for what?  For love.

Share this message with others.  Frame the gospel in terms that sound like “Good News” for a cynical world.  God as the CEO that bails me out.  Is it too good to be true?

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I heard last night that a state representative in Flordia is bailing out Henrietta Hughes after her plea to Barack Obama to help her and her family out of homelessness – by letting her live in one of his homes.  Read the amazing story of grace here.


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Part 1: Church Planting in the Economic Downturn

Part 2: The CEO that bails ME out

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