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Originally Posted by aron
The DYL - TC - BP scenario reminds me of nothing so much as this. Young men, groomed in a power structure, unable to resolve their "Who is on first" dilemma, and dutiful saints from Santa Monica and Sao Paulo and Toronto and Dallas and Dayton now dutifully oppose each other, just as patriotic Frenchmen and Germans and Canadians were expected to shoot at each other on the fields of Ypres a century ago.
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p.s. the ekklesia should be, it seems to me, a kind of safety net where damaged and messed-up sinners can come to get reconciled to God through Christ Jesus.
I was thinking this recently because I realized that maybe the only difference between George W. Bush and a bum on the street is that George had a good safety net and they didn't. Both might have had drug, alcohol, and behavior problems, but one had a good safety net (the Bush family of Texas) and one didn't.
We are all screw-ups, myself perhaps more than anyone, and we all need a safe environment to recover and be transformed back to God's original purpose. The ekklesia, the meeting of beleivers, should be that place, and not a venue for unending internecine warfare to be played out.
It is embarrasing for me, as a human, to look back at our history and see the wholesale slaughter of tens of millions because somebody couldn't keep their ego in check, and the masses were convinced that this was a crisis for society. It is tenfold embarrasing as a christian to see antagonistic camps of christian believers, opposing each other over what appears (to me) to be a few peoples' different understandings of nebulous concepts and ill-defined words.
My safety net has been damaged, and I don't like it.