What to do?
I started tearing up in my first class this morning. I really need to stop reading the newspaper.
Yesterday, a "Christian" religious group protested outside of a local business, The Inner Cheif, that is owned by a gay man. They sported signs with such slogans as "Fags die, God laughs" and felt compelled to burn a couple of gay pride flags. When interviewed the owner of The Inner Cheif stated, "If the protestors had been on our side of the street, I suggested that we just take them coffee. There is no point in responding evil with evil. Why lower yourself to that way of thinking?"
Makes you wonder, who better understands the heart of Christ?
Interestingly enough, I also read this.
"We are therefore, a vanguard generation with a responsibility to lead at a time of great opportunity and great danger. We are watching the world change, and we don't yet know what it is going to look like...The challenges for the church at such a time are profound. A generation that finds itself in the crux of such a change has a SIGNIFICANT responsibility for shaping the new ways of thinking that WILL define its own age but also that of the coming era. When Christians get it right at such times, adapting themselves to the changing culture and finding new language for timeless truths, the Gospel spreads more easily for years to come because it makes sense to people. However, when the Church gets it wrong by resisting change and enshrining nostalgia, we RISK apparent irelevance and an upward struggle...The challenge is...to reinvent the Church without changing the message, to reach this generations for the sake of the age to come."
How am I going to be used to do this?
Yesterday, a "Christian" religious group protested outside of a local business, The Inner Cheif, that is owned by a gay man. They sported signs with such slogans as "Fags die, God laughs" and felt compelled to burn a couple of gay pride flags. When interviewed the owner of The Inner Cheif stated, "If the protestors had been on our side of the street, I suggested that we just take them coffee. There is no point in responding evil with evil. Why lower yourself to that way of thinking?"
Makes you wonder, who better understands the heart of Christ?
Interestingly enough, I also read this.
"We are therefore, a vanguard generation with a responsibility to lead at a time of great opportunity and great danger. We are watching the world change, and we don't yet know what it is going to look like...The challenges for the church at such a time are profound. A generation that finds itself in the crux of such a change has a SIGNIFICANT responsibility for shaping the new ways of thinking that WILL define its own age but also that of the coming era. When Christians get it right at such times, adapting themselves to the changing culture and finding new language for timeless truths, the Gospel spreads more easily for years to come because it makes sense to people. However, when the Church gets it wrong by resisting change and enshrining nostalgia, we RISK apparent irelevance and an upward struggle...The challenge is...to reinvent the Church without changing the message, to reach this generations for the sake of the age to come."
How am I going to be used to do this?