Been a minute...
It's been a minute since I posted something on the blog. I've been not writing mostly because I haven't really had much to say. Things are, well, what they are.
Since I last wrote, we had our president impeached. That may be historic, but it's also, sadly, most likely necessary. The more we learn, and we learned something through not the President letting Congress have documents, but through a dogged use of the Freedom of Information Act process we did not know before last Friday night, the worse it gets for the President.
Over the last week, I got to see the reasons why it's good to be a-political. I learned this through a publication of an editorial and a further statement from a publication called "Christianity Today" which talks about the damage the undying support of the religious right's unyielding support to Mr. Trump has done to the Church in America. You can read one of the articles here.
I agree with this. It's on-point. And I love how they're trying to have a civil discussion about a matter that, in my view, seriously needs to be addressed. I lost my appetite for Evangelicals after Sarah Palin. She was, in my mind, just another reason why I'd never want to be a Christian. And then about a decade ago, now, I became one. I didn't want to be, and still don't identify myself as, an Evangelical. What I am is a Christ follower, or if you prefer a term from the 60s and 70s, a Jesus Freak.
Notice I used the words Christ follower instead of Christian. I am, undeniably, a Christian, but that word in our culture has taken on a meaning other than the original. Many people self-identify as Christians, but saying something doesn't make it so. If it were, I'd self identify as rich and good looking instead of what I am. But what I am is what God made me to be and I'm grateful for that.
But I also don't want to be guilty by association, either, with the people who claim to be, but their actions say they're anything but, a Christian, so I use the term Christ follower to be a little bit more specific about where I'm at.
Eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America. We still have predominantly segregated churches in this country. Enough to back that statement up At our church we have all kinds of people that worship with us, but at Second Baptist, the congregation is mostly African American. There are hispanic churches in Ogden, too. And that kind of says something about where the church is in America.
i heard a news commentator talk about the "White Evangelical Movement". There is one too many words in that sentence. That the word White is connected to the words Evangelical Movement is telling that something is seriously wrong here. Especially since our God and our King Jesus was, in all likelihood, more olive-colored in his own complexion. God's children are multi-colored, and any "Evangelical Movement" ought to be representative of what the Kingdom is going to look like as opposed to what we'd like it to look like.
If you clicked on the link and read the story, you'd see the larger point is about what damage is done to the Church when we refuse to see that things can be this and that. Mr. Trump has done some good things. They don't excuse his behavior. If that were the case, Bill Clinton would not have been impeached. The church has a responsibility to stand up for Biblical principles and demand better moral leadership from our elected officials.
And as for myself, I see the dangers in spouting off about politics and the damage it can do to someone else's walk. I would hate for someone not to want to know more about Jesus because of my personal political opinions. I try to stay out of discussions like that. In fact, I told a new friend we'd just have to agree to disagree.
Well, that's it from here. Hope you all are well!
Since I last wrote, we had our president impeached. That may be historic, but it's also, sadly, most likely necessary. The more we learn, and we learned something through not the President letting Congress have documents, but through a dogged use of the Freedom of Information Act process we did not know before last Friday night, the worse it gets for the President.
Over the last week, I got to see the reasons why it's good to be a-political. I learned this through a publication of an editorial and a further statement from a publication called "Christianity Today" which talks about the damage the undying support of the religious right's unyielding support to Mr. Trump has done to the Church in America. You can read one of the articles here.
I agree with this. It's on-point. And I love how they're trying to have a civil discussion about a matter that, in my view, seriously needs to be addressed. I lost my appetite for Evangelicals after Sarah Palin. She was, in my mind, just another reason why I'd never want to be a Christian. And then about a decade ago, now, I became one. I didn't want to be, and still don't identify myself as, an Evangelical. What I am is a Christ follower, or if you prefer a term from the 60s and 70s, a Jesus Freak.
Notice I used the words Christ follower instead of Christian. I am, undeniably, a Christian, but that word in our culture has taken on a meaning other than the original. Many people self-identify as Christians, but saying something doesn't make it so. If it were, I'd self identify as rich and good looking instead of what I am. But what I am is what God made me to be and I'm grateful for that.
But I also don't want to be guilty by association, either, with the people who claim to be, but their actions say they're anything but, a Christian, so I use the term Christ follower to be a little bit more specific about where I'm at.
Eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America. We still have predominantly segregated churches in this country. Enough to back that statement up At our church we have all kinds of people that worship with us, but at Second Baptist, the congregation is mostly African American. There are hispanic churches in Ogden, too. And that kind of says something about where the church is in America.
i heard a news commentator talk about the "White Evangelical Movement". There is one too many words in that sentence. That the word White is connected to the words Evangelical Movement is telling that something is seriously wrong here. Especially since our God and our King Jesus was, in all likelihood, more olive-colored in his own complexion. God's children are multi-colored, and any "Evangelical Movement" ought to be representative of what the Kingdom is going to look like as opposed to what we'd like it to look like.
If you clicked on the link and read the story, you'd see the larger point is about what damage is done to the Church when we refuse to see that things can be this and that. Mr. Trump has done some good things. They don't excuse his behavior. If that were the case, Bill Clinton would not have been impeached. The church has a responsibility to stand up for Biblical principles and demand better moral leadership from our elected officials.
And as for myself, I see the dangers in spouting off about politics and the damage it can do to someone else's walk. I would hate for someone not to want to know more about Jesus because of my personal political opinions. I try to stay out of discussions like that. In fact, I told a new friend we'd just have to agree to disagree.
Well, that's it from here. Hope you all are well!
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