Christianity: A Raw Dirty Religion

Today my pastor talked about how Christianity is about working through the suffering, not medicating through it, not rising above it, not denying it, but facing it down. This makes Christianity a raw and dirty religion. It's a religion that chooses to base itself in reality. God in the flesh = God getting dirty. The point isn't to get above and beyond the physical world, but to be made better while in the physical world and to work to make the physical world a better place, and a better place to be.This is an amazing and beautiful view of Christianity. One that says not to aim for monasteries in distant mountains, but in inner-city communes; right where all the bad stuff is, and right where lots of people (God's most amazing beautiful creation) are.