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Concerning this last week…
“A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that?”
Oscar Romero
Concerning birthright citizenship, Paul’s Roman citizenship two thousand years ago is just one biblical example.
I’m up sharing quotes that seem relevant today…
“In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Thereafter, any attack, even on the least of men, is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own person restored the image of God in all. Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Today is Eddie Van Halen’s birthday. I wanted to play guitar because of him, like most kids in those days. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
I hear ya Reuben. I miss him. One of those “NO!” moments when I heard of his passing.
“a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin”
The problem is when it gets under someone’s skin. Then suddenly, is it no longer the word of God? Is the word suddenly up for interpretation or higher criticism or subject to someone’s tradition?
I would like to see Christians subject themselves to the same standards they impose on others.
The problem with using the Bible as a standard for ourselves and others to live by, is that we can’t possibly (and I would argue we shouldn’t) apply every verse of the bible equally and universally. The problem may not be as much ignoring the bible, as it is emphasizing the wrong part.
I say the triage for engaging the world through the lens of scripture should be the way we saw Jesus teach and practice. Love God, love others. We should be far more interested in treating people the way Jesus would treat them than whether or not they participate in whatever sin our group is worried about. Jesus was always on the side of the oppressed and down trodden, and so we should be too.
A Christianity that doesn’t care about hurting people, that sides with power over the oppressed, is a Christianity divorced from Jesus himself.
Jean
I don’t think Romero was addressing higher criticism or “someone’s tradition”… But of course you know that.