The Word needs to be active as Ephesians 6 indicates. Internalizing the Word means more than just intellectual assent; or scripture memory but it is our default mode; as it were in life's difficulties. Learning to feed ourselves should be practiced along with seeking the counsel and prayer of others.
As I ended the last post; I wanted to state that those who know Christ don't mind exhortation and even if they are not in need of such they appreciate hearing the Word on the subject and the concern of a friend who is willing to press forth so as to help with growth for another brother or sister. As my post yesterday explained a love for the law isn't something foreign to us; even though living to attempt to attain perfection through all the O.T. laws will lead to exhaustion and failure in our own efforts.
I was thinking about humanism the other day and how that philosophy or rather religious spirit hijacked much of the church in the 60s and it hasn't been the same. The first issue as I mentioned before that bears repeating is the concept that man is basically good and governments in particular are bad. This mindset infected the church so that the social justice issue superceded scripture and proper protocol in many places.
Case study 1: Racism. In study of such a topic; we see that the situation was indeed more complex than the textbooks suggest; with many white people taken as slaves for a time in Europe; black slaveowners and those tied into profiteering; etc.
Whether in theory someone could be in such a position and treated humanely or not we obviously can't ignore the barbaric institution; whether the initial sale of people and transport like animals where many died before arriving here; or the beatings and untold other abuses that I don't have time to adequately explore here. If we claim to know Christ surely we should agree voting and wage rights were necessary issues to solve at that time. See next post.
The Word needs to be active as Ephesians 6 indicates. Internalizing the Word means more than just intellectual assent; or scripture memory but it is our default mode; as it were in life's difficulties. Learning to feed ourselves should be practiced along with seeking the counsel and prayer of others.
As I ended the last post; I wanted to state that those who know Christ don't mind exhortation and even if they are not in need of such they appreciate hearing the Word on the subject and the concern of a friend who is willing to press forth so as to help with growth for another brother or sister. As my post yesterday explained a love for the law isn't something foreign to us; even though living to attempt to attain perfection through all the O.T. laws will lead to exhaustion and failure in our own efforts.
I was thinking about humanism the other day and how that philosophy or rather religious spirit hijacked much of the church in the 60s and it hasn't been the same. The first issue as I mentioned before that bears repeating is the concept that man is basically good and governments in particular are bad. This mindset infected the church so that the social justice issue superceded scripture and proper protocol in many places.
Case study 1: Racism. In study of such a topic; we see that the situation was indeed more complex than the textbooks suggest; with many white people taken as slaves for a time in Europe; black slaveowners and those tied into profiteering; etc.
Whether in theory someone could be in such a position and treated humanely or not we obviously can't ignore the barbaric institution; whether the initial sale of people and transport like animals where many died before arriving here; or the beatings and untold other abuses that I don't have time to adequately explore here. If we claim to know Christ surely we should agree voting and wage rights were necessary issues to solve at that time. See next post.
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