Jesus incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately lose as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into winning people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the other.
