Great post Erick. For Christian's, it is important to remember that Jesus was a friend to sinners. And that is a good thing because none of us could be friends of God if that were not true.
I cannot help but love what John Lewis was willing to endure to change the great amount of racial injustice that existed in the 1960's. At the same ti…
Great post Erick. For Christian's, it is important to remember that Jesus was a friend to sinners. And that is a good thing because none of us could be friends of God if that were not true.
I cannot help but love what John Lewis was willing to endure to change the great amount of racial injustice that existed in the 1960's. At the same time, I cannot love what I consider to be the unjustifiable partisanship he exhibited later in his life, as in your example of his comments about John Eaves. Unless one lives in a bubble, almost everybody knows somebody who has political views that don't align with hers (even among family members). It is possible to strongly disagree with somebody and politely agree to disagree. My private joke is that if I only was willing to fellowship with Christians who shared my exact set of theological views, I would be a denomination of one, and I would have to excommunicate myself because sometimes I have changed my mind.
Great post Erick. For Christian's, it is important to remember that Jesus was a friend to sinners. And that is a good thing because none of us could be friends of God if that were not true.
I cannot help but love what John Lewis was willing to endure to change the great amount of racial injustice that existed in the 1960's. At the same time, I cannot love what I consider to be the unjustifiable partisanship he exhibited later in his life, as in your example of his comments about John Eaves. Unless one lives in a bubble, almost everybody knows somebody who has political views that don't align with hers (even among family members). It is possible to strongly disagree with somebody and politely agree to disagree. My private joke is that if I only was willing to fellowship with Christians who shared my exact set of theological views, I would be a denomination of one, and I would have to excommunicate myself because sometimes I have changed my mind.