Luke 6:39
Can a blind man lead a blind man?
In a word, “No.” Of course, I can’t just know that by sheer intellect alone. Oh, no! I had to go and prove it in front of about 150 students. I go every Monday morning to my children’s school to 
lead a bit of praise and worship during their school assembly, and this morning I took Sydney with me. I’m carrying her as I walked toward the piano and I can see absolutely nothing, so I kind of gauged where I was by the length of the piano and once I had walked past it, I turned right to go behind it to play. Of course, I completely forgot about the bench that was in front of the piano and when my feet hit it, my legs stayed there and my upper body continued to go sit down. Sydney and I hit the floor bottom first and belly first, respectively, and the students got quite a laugh. Thankfully I was able to point out to all the students and teachers exactly where that bench was so that none of them would ever trip over it in the future. I am, after all, here to serve.
As I laid there sprawled out in front of God and everyone, this verse was the first thing that ran through my mind. Well, the second. The first thing was what could I say that would keep me from looking like an idiot. I came up with nothing. Anyway, I thought about this verse and how the answer to Jesus’ question really isn’t “no,” but “yes, but it won’t end well.” And that’s what Jesus was getting at. He followed the question up with another one: “Will they not both fall *into a pit?” (*some ancient texts read “over a bench when the greatest number of people are looking”)
So, here’s the point of this whole mess. As believers, we have the same message as the man in John 9:25: we were blind, now we’re not. And if we’re not blind, then we are qualified to LEAD! What’s more insane than the blind leading the blind? How about the blind leading the seeing (I know “sighted” is probably the correct term, but it didn’t sound as cool)?
Culture has wagged the tail of the church for way too long, and if we continue to let it “carry” us, we’re going to find ourselves like Syndey: falling out of control to a violent end. Perhaps we can avoid that by stepping up and leading. Maybe, as true followers of Christ, we can influence the culture around us and lead the blind in it to Jesus.
Wouldn’t that be something to see?
