Today I was reminded again of my old life, as a student at Calvary Baptist Church Academy. This private, Christian school was the sole provider of academic education from Kindergarten through the twelfth grade. I'm so thankful for the education that I received there. It provided me with a great foundation on which to further my studies in under-graduate and post-graduate academic work.
Though it wasn't promoted in the curriculum, the conflict of religious ideas was a regular topic of debate. Anytime you put people from different religious backgrounds in a setting to have religious instruction it is bound to happen. Perhaps it still does today?
Recently I've been thinking about these arguments and debates; the "my church is better than your church" battles. And I've come to realize that these conversations worse than pointless are irrelevant. Irrelevant to what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Irrelevant to meeting the needs of people far from God. Irrelevant to accomplishing the mission of Christ. Irrelevant to the need of the poor, the orphan and widows. Irrelevant to a post-Christian society. In fact, these debates are divisive rather than collaborative undermining the very nature of Jesus' church.
Titus 3:9, "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law because they are unprofitable and useless."
--Ben
3 comments:
Where we go is never as important as Whose we are.
"For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air." 1Cor 14:8,9
Paul's (Irrelevant argument)
I'm not following how the scripture is irrelevant. I think he makes his point well in this statement with regards to what he's talking about in the previous two chapters.
But I think this is from a discussion over on Facebook.
Happy commenting.
Post a Comment