We Lack a "Holy Rage"

I came across something that struck me from Danish pastor Kaj Munk as I was reading Michael Frost's book Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture. I am not finished reading the book, so this is by no means a review. Frost argues that Christ Followers must be able to speak against the normative way of life and be prepared to live a life of justice, mercy, and love that reflects the character of Jesus (p.20). Here is where Frost introduces Kaj.

Kaj Munk was an outspoken opponent against the German Occupation of Denmark in WWII. He was arrested after he had defied a Nazi ban, and his body was found in a ditch the next morning.

This is what Munk writes:

What is, therefore, the task of the preacher (or the church) today? 

Shall I answer: "Faith, hope and love"? 

That sounds beautiful.

     But I would say--Courage. 

     No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth.    

Our task today is recklessness.

For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature,

     we lack a holy rage.

The recklessness that comes from the knowledge of God and humanity.

The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets...

     and when the lie rages across the face of the earth--

          a holy anger about things that are wrong in the world.

To rage against the ravaging of God's earth,

     and the destruction of God's world.

To rage when little children must die of hunger

     when the tables of the rich are sagging with food.

To rage at the senseless killing of so many,

     and against the madness of militaries.

To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of 

destruction--Peace.

To rage against complacency. 

To recklessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change

     human history until it conforms with the norms of the Kingdom of God.

And remember the signs of the Christian Church have always been-- 

     the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish...

          but never the chameleon.