Crap! I still can't comment on my own darned posts consistently...
Anyway,
Thanks everyone for your comments about whatever, whenever. I find it's so hard to actually make a statement! Even on my own blog!! So I appreciate you all doing just that. And I'm sorry Stacy but that's what I was doing in my passive aggressive way when I linked to that article.
I totally agree that the COEXIST bumper sticker makes literally...no sense... But a piece of me believes in the come as you are sort of attitude and I can never shake it. No matter how much I know that not every religion can be the real religion I'm still pulled in the direction of loving everyone for who they are and what they want to believe. But it's so backwards?!?!
I have been told by many'a sermon that this is the Devil trying to steal me away and that communing with the people on the other side of the fence just dilutes my cause. But maybe being honest in this post will help because I just want to believe with all my fibers that peace is the answer.
Not that it's not
But I don't know. I feel bad for thinking that and bad for not thinking that.
I suppose this is the human struggle?
Battling external and internal?
Thanks for listening~
I don't know how "backwards" it is, I guess. Yes, unless you're a fan of post-modernism, there is truth. (I suppose even if you are a fan, truth still exists - you just don't admit it.) :) Anyway, I think Jesus exhibited the most amazing form of loving people as they are. Historically speaking, if you look at the sort of people He kept company with - well, we'll just say it wasn't flattering to Him. It just wasn't the way things were done in His era. Now I don't want to assume (like I did in the Coexist post - see? lesson learned.) so what I'm reading is that some sermonizing has told you you shouldn't be hanging out with non-Christians? If you don't "commune with people on the other side of the fence", how do they know the love of Christ in a tangible way? Why would they ever change from what they want to believe to what is truth? I don't know how it dilutes your cause, as much as it is your cause. If Christ took it up, why wouldn't we?
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