September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve The following postings are a compilation of a five-part series I did considering Brian McLaren’s decision to observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and one person’s reaction to my concern over McLaren’s choice. It’s called, “Who am I to judge…?” and it captures the essence of the tension in today’s post-modern Christian world between [...]
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve (continued from Part IV) Okay, we have finally finished our trip through the spooky McLaren forest and are dusting ourselves off now that we have reached the other side. Now it’s time to talk turkey. (By the way… I still have no idea where that saying comes from.) We haven’t even attempted to answer all [...]
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve (continued from Part III) If you have been following along at home, I said way back in Part II of this series that the, “Who am I to judge…?” question dropped a barge-load of heavy duty questions at my spiritual dock. That one question forced me to step back and rethink my attitude toward the [...]
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve (continued from Part II) The problem with a line like, “Who am I to judge…?” is that it springs up like a relativistic cobra from the dense underbrush of legitimate theological debate. It is intended to do one thing; stop you dead in your tracks. It makes you consciously pause, wondering whether the snake bite [...]
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve (continued from Part I) The essence of the obviously rhetorical, “Who am I to judge…?” question is simple. McLaren is doing what he can to build relationships with people of other faiths. If McLaren thinks he is doing what God is leading him to do, then… “What right do we have to question the guy’s [...]
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve I have been thinking a lot lately about the spiritual tension between the words “judgment” and “discernment. “ This trip through the wonderland of religious semantics all started when Brian McLaren, noted Christ Follower (aka: “Christian”) and de-facto global head of what is known as “The Emergent Church,” publicly announced his intent to observe the [...]
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September 10, 2009 | Posted by Steve My family and I sat down tonight to a civics lesson in why Barack Obama is the Prez and George Bush is a fast-fading memory. The man can just plain speak and when he does speak he speaks very plainly. He knows how to articulate tough issues in simple terms and hits all the emotional [...]
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