There is a splintering occurring, and I see this more internationally than nationally, though nationally the transition is occurring at light speed. The splinter factions are from within the church itself - mainly the visible church. This is why I feel Christianity is on a collision course with itself. Every person believing upon Christ will, in the final days, be asked to take a side. And in taking a side we will side against Christ. In taking a side we will side against love. And having said that, we will find it almost impossible not to take a side. These are heady days!
My question is, are these the last days of Christianity? Not the church, nor Christians, nor faith... but of Christianity - as we have come to know and refer to it. Are we now not tearing ourselves apart because of the divisive methods we engage in that take us far from love - its own wisdom?
TALKING SIN
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There seems to be so much debate these days as to gender, sexuality, among a range of other things ethically, and sin - as if issues we may have come to feel definitely wedded to in our identities couldn't or shouldn't be called sin, even if they are wrong. We feel we're beyond sin or sinning; that it's an offence to call something that people feel strongly about, or entitled to, "sinful."
Sin is an ugly word these days. It should have always been, but since the grace of God's gospel rained down on us from heaven through the cross and resurrection, sin and the devil no longer have a sovereign word; God does. Sin merely highlights God's goodness; His grace, ours! But what is the gospel to us if we do not believe we're sinners? Then we have no need of Christ and the good news of God. We choose our own salvation and become, of choose, our own saviours.
If we hope to go on in our relationship with God our sin will always be central and others' more peripheral. Yet as soon as our own sin becomes less apparent, so does our relationship with God become less apparent, and where His grace in our lives is less apparent, what becomes more noticeable are other people's sins. Then we begin to take sides...
And depart from God and His will for our lives, which is that we would relate with Him.
TAKING SIDES
The very point of this most urgent time is not to take a side. When we take sides we have chosen to love an allegiance. We have forgotten that it is for people that we love. It may seem we choose His Word or Christ Himself when we take a side, but side-taking is, of itself, a betrayal of Christ and His Word.
We venture forth a view, that, because truth is unambiguous, we must be unambiguous, but truth is God's, not ours, and much truth (that we don't and can't see) will only be revealed when we meet God. This is not a matter of siding with postmodernity - that monstrosity of the abstract - either. We opt not to commit to having a view, because that view might be a deceived view; a view that, in its portrayal, betrays love when we, in fact, have endeavoured to love. Just because we advocate for truth doesn't mean we always hit love's mark - most of the time we advocate for truth we miss love's mark! So much relational damage has been inflicted because we advocated for the truth. We're in territory where love and wisdom merge and fuse in God.
There is a splintering occurring, and I see this more internationally than nationally, though nationally the transition is occurring at light speed. The splinter factions are from within the church itself - mainly the visible church. This is why I feel Christianity is on a collision course with itself. Every person believing upon Christ will, in the final days, be asked to take a side. And in taking a side we will side against Christ. In taking a side we will side against love. And having said that, we will find it almost impossible not to take a side. These are heady days!
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