Mixed feelings on your post. Partly I am sure…I share in the cultural distortions of our upbringing and religious prejudices.
Partly, your struggle with definitive and descriptive dialogue that captures our mixed feelings and embarrassment of being so fearful yet resistant to the realities of those times and our eventual awareness of how far we were from the gospel.
But, also…there seems to be a tone of anger in your words. It unsettles me!
Why? Is it you with unresolved issues? Or, is it me that I and those who lead are so far afield from what is the truth of Jesus?
I hope that you did detect some anger, or what I would call a righteous indignation. Or as my namesake put it, "See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done."
Let me ponder! Appreciate there is a scriptural context. Reminds me of a message by Tim Keller, on Acts 17, back in the 90’s, who did reference MLK positively, as well as many others on the complex emotional feelings of Paul seeing the idols and looking beneath the idols to our hearts and to a personal resurrected Jesus to bring healing to our brokenness.
Mixed feelings on your post. Partly I am sure…I share in the cultural distortions of our upbringing and religious prejudices.
Partly, your struggle with definitive and descriptive dialogue that captures our mixed feelings and embarrassment of being so fearful yet resistant to the realities of those times and our eventual awareness of how far we were from the gospel.
But, also…there seems to be a tone of anger in your words. It unsettles me!
Why? Is it you with unresolved issues? Or, is it me that I and those who lead are so far afield from what is the truth of Jesus?
I hope that you did detect some anger, or what I would call a righteous indignation. Or as my namesake put it, "See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done."
Let me ponder! Appreciate there is a scriptural context. Reminds me of a message by Tim Keller, on Acts 17, back in the 90’s, who did reference MLK positively, as well as many others on the complex emotional feelings of Paul seeing the idols and looking beneath the idols to our hearts and to a personal resurrected Jesus to bring healing to our brokenness.
Your response appreciated.