Hi there - welcome to my beat. My heart for you to read.Before you dive in, allow me to introduce my wife, Katy and I via this lovely recent picture of us getting ready for an 80s party. I call it, "Gamer Geek Hooks Up with Dance Aerobics Queen." :)
I will most likely include pictures of us and our family throughout my postings; video, too, eventually.
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These days, I hear quite a bit about poorly constructed consumer products, like these Aqua Dots, and that's putting it lightly. That, and utterly raw videos like this one from Iraq show that things are amuck in the world these days.
Nothing new. But neither is the Gospel, and people who either give their lives for it, or give their lives against it.
On that note, however, I must use this first post to just throw something out there, ready to be torched, tossed, tassled and/or mangled by whoever sees fit:
Is it godly for Christian churches to fight one another?
Honestly now, put yourself in a hypothetical nonbeliever's shoes, and ask me a very real question on your [hypothetical] mind: "why should I join the church when they can't agree on so many things?"
(But wait, more questions bombard you...)
"Why should I join a religion that's killed thousands in the past several decades in the name of God's Manifest Destiny, be it North America 300 years ago or the Middle East 1000 years ago?"
"Why should I join a religion with like 20 different translations of your Bible that I read only borrows most of its beginnings from other ancient religions' books? Not every man can pay for Bible college to learn EVERYTHING about your Bible."
"And hey, why should I join when so many of YOU turn away? When you can't even agree as much as Muslims can agree or Mormons can agree?"
"Why should I waste all the pleasure I'm feeling right now that, quite frankly, I've never seen you enjoy - ever? Always so burdened."
"Freedom? What freedom from sin are you talking about? I'm already free from guilt."
...
Whoa there, well now... are "Christians" prepared to answer these questions?
Am I?
Am I prepared to thrust into the limelight the issue of Christ's body fighting one another over things ranging from worship music to immoral cartoons to acceptance of homosexuality?
I am.
Christianity has been used to justify mass killings, slavery, and a host of other crazy things. I'm not blogging about my side here, not yet. Here, I'm blogging about the journey. -PD
These days, I hear quite a bit about poorly constructed consumer products, like these Aqua Dots, and that's putting it lightly. That, and utterly raw videos like this one from Iraq show that things are amuck in the world these days.
Nothing new. But neither is the Gospel, and people who either give their lives for it, or give their lives against it.
On that note, however, I must use this first post to just throw something out there, ready to be torched, tossed, tassled and/or mangled by whoever sees fit:
Is it godly for Christian churches to fight one another?
Honestly now, put yourself in a hypothetical nonbeliever's shoes, and ask me a very real question on your [hypothetical] mind: "why should I join the church when they can't agree on so many things?"
(But wait, more questions bombard you...)
"Why should I join a religion that's killed thousands in the past several decades in the name of God's Manifest Destiny, be it North America 300 years ago or the Middle East 1000 years ago?"
"Why should I join a religion with like 20 different translations of your Bible that I read only borrows most of its beginnings from other ancient religions' books? Not every man can pay for Bible college to learn EVERYTHING about your Bible."
"And hey, why should I join when so many of YOU turn away? When you can't even agree as much as Muslims can agree or Mormons can agree?"
"Why should I waste all the pleasure I'm feeling right now that, quite frankly, I've never seen you enjoy - ever? Always so burdened."
"Freedom? What freedom from sin are you talking about? I'm already free from guilt."
...
Whoa there, well now... are "Christians" prepared to answer these questions?
Am I?
Am I prepared to thrust into the limelight the issue of Christ's body fighting one another over things ranging from worship music to immoral cartoons to acceptance of homosexuality?
I am.
Christianity has been used to justify mass killings, slavery, and a host of other crazy things. I'm not blogging about my side here, not yet. Here, I'm blogging about the journey. -PD
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Very interesting! I'm looking forward to reading more on this blog.
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