Biting And Devouring

I've been noticing (and so have you) that among Christians there's an awful lot of back-biting taking place. Fundamentalists and some percentage of Evangelicals go on about how the Emergent crowd is off on a tangent and doesn't understand the law or the gospel. They just don't get it. In the Emerging church, one of their claims to fame is that they are able to present the gospel in context, in a relevant way, not like old-school Christians who are stuck in the past and just don't get it. Everybody knows Charismatics are loony, right? God doesn't move anymore! Man, they don't get it. Charismatics are the only ones who know that the Spirit has left all the dead churches and only dwells within their own church.

"Ello, Guvna!"

Remember what Paul said in Galatians 5...
"But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another."

It's not like we don't have enough adversity in the world, without attacking each other to boot. We're the body of Christ. Jesus prayed in John 17, "I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are."

That they may be one, even as We are. Maybe your bothers and sisters don't say it just the way you would, but they're saying it. Maybe they're saying it the way someone needs to hear it, in order to take a step toward God. Encourage that. Encourage them. Let's not forget why we're here. The Body isn't all feet, or eyes, or arms. We need each other.

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No Politics

Hmm, not much going on in the world of no politics. This is the first post I've written since I imposed a 24-hour moratorium on political posts at my blog, after being overwhelmed with complaints from my reader.
Oh!
Well, there's this:

It's been 70 days (yes, seventy) since Josh Crain's last post. I wonder if it's writer's block.

Hey, How about Kanye West? What a dufus.
How about Joe Wilson? What a dork.
How about Patrick Swayze? Bummer, I loved him in Road House.
How about them Vikes? Tied for the top spot in the NFL after week1.

You Lie

Everybody needs to back off of South Carolina Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson. Was it okay for him to yell, "You Lie!" at the president in response to Obama's comments on health care and illegal immigrants? No.
Did he apologize and admit his outburst was inappropriate? Yes. Was his apology accepted? Yes. Do I hate it when people ask a question and then answer their own question? Of course I do. Everybody does.

But why do the Dems want to drag Wilson through the mud and spank him after he's already admitted his actions were out of line? Beatings and dead horses come to mind. I think they're desperate for anything that will take the focus off the president's zany ideas, at this point.

By the way, I read that when the president spoke here in Minneapolis yesterday, the heat and lights got to him, and someone got him a folding chair. Maybe they should have gotten him a cot instead, so he could, you know, "lie."