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02/27/2003 Entry: "Sin? What sin?"
In the LivingRoom, Darren raises an interesting and important question:
I'm yet to hear of a church where the leadership confronted an individual member on the way they spend their money. I'm yet to hear a tale where someone was asked to leave a church because in their job they made decisions which exploited or oppressed the poor. I've never heard of a church sitting down a member out of a concern for their workaholic tendencies.I'd say, because instead of being a community of the redeemed being guided by the principle's of the Kingdom of God, the Church shares the same obsessions and interests as the rest of society. Greed is theoretically accepted as a sin, but in practice it is built in to the fabric of everything we do. Society is obsessed by sex; so is the church. I heard a church leader on the radio this morning describe homosexuality as a "fundamental issue of the Christian faith." But how would he work that out from the New Testament? The teaching of Jesus poses a constant challenge to the "conventional wisdom of the world" - but Darren's right. Most of the time, the Church does not pose that challenge, and may not even recognise it.Why do some parts of our life seem to be impacted by faith while others are kept separate? Why are some 'compartments' of ones life open to the church's scrutiny and comment while others are largely ignored?
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Ta for the link mate. Totally agree with Alice and Pen above. We pick and choose our topics to talk about and end up concentrating on the things Jesus talked little of and ignoring his major issues. I think its sad and in doing so we run the risk of putting another nail in the coffin of the Church.
If we keep buying into the consumeristic, individualistic, get ahead at any costs mentality of the world we won't survive the century.
Posted by Darren @ 02/27/2003 09:24 PM CST
A heathen rock star says there are '2203 verses in Christian scripture that talk about care for the poor.'
Seems like a central issue would be economic justice.. but then that's out of the mouth of a rock star...
Posted by Pen @ 02/27/2003 04:43 PM CST
If you take it seriously and call yourself a Christian I don't see how you [i]can[/i] separate out life into a different "compartment" from faith... surely it has an impact on everything, and it makes far more sense (to me, at least) to concentrate on the things Jesus mentioned and cares lots about, like money, social concerns, rather than sex (as far as I remember it gets far fewer mentions in the Book!)
Posted by alice @ 02/27/2003 04:23 PM CST
