Some perspective, perhaps, on the controversy of the moment.
Source: Where I stand on Kneeling
Author: kevingdrendel
I am sixtiesh, an English Literature major in college and an attorney by profession. Faith informs my life, and this blog is about my faith journey.
The World is Passing Away
We live in a world in which our greatest desires can never be realized
“the present form of this world is passing away.”
(1 Corinthians 7:31)
Perspective makes all the difference in how we see the world and live our lives. The perspective of faith is wholly different than the perspective of skepticism. The person who has been born again, born from above, born of the spirit[1], is a new creature; the new has come and the old has passed away.[2] We are no longer of this world, though we continue to live in it.[3]
Do we really grasp the meaning of these things? Sometimes I wonder. I wonder about myself as I look back at the things that have captured my attention at times, the anxiety and worries I have had about temporal things, and all the time I have wasted doing trivial things.
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Whether God Exists: Distinguishing Emotion from Reason
Emotional arguments hit hard,
but they sometimes lack any rational substance.
Source: Whether God Exists: Distinguishing Emotion from Reason
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Judging the Church and Reconciling the World
God’s heart is to have the Gospel (Good News) preached to all the world, but the Church is preaching judgment instead.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians urging them “not to associate with sexually immoral people”, but he qualifies that statement to say that he is “not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters since you would need to go out of the world”. (1 Corinthians 5:9-10) Thus, Paul clarifies by adding “not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler – not even to eat with such a one.” (1 Cor. 5:11)
Paul is obviously making a distinction between people in the church and people outside the church, Christ followers and non-Christ followers. This distinction is something we have generally glossed over in the modern church today, and it seems to me that we have gotten these instructions from Paul to the Corinthians exactly backwards.
I think of the Moral Majority with which I grew up in the faith when I say this. I think of more modern efforts of Christians fighting in the “culture war” to try to impose Christian values on our world. I used to be wholeheartedly behind those efforts, but my reading of what Paul said in his first letter to the Corinthians has caused me to rethink.
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A Discourse on Belief
Is it possible to go through life without believing in anything? Can we do science and limit ourselves in our thinking to nothing but the facts? Source: A Discourse on Belief
