Monday, February 26, 2007
Things that make you go mmmmm.....
Ok, so I ripped the lyric for the title from a band in the early 90's. If anyone remembers the name, please rekindle my memory so as no to steal.
I am in a confused state as I wrestle with the collision of a secular world versus the christian realm. The number of outpouring of generosity and love that has come in the recent weeks in my life has been incredible. People from Asbury have been so supportive and loving that it takes my breath away. On the flip side, the collision of my life that involves those not following a christian path is so diversely different, it is hard to get my head around it much of the time. Is that an insane conundrum?
I am trying to remain non judgmental and loving and simply accept where people are, but sometimes it is hard no to hold people to the same set of expectations that I hold for myself. Jesus calls us to love all people without regard, am I the only one currently struggling with this call? I don't know....For the first time in many moons, I have nothing more to say....scary isn't it.
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I fully admit that when it comes to eternal salvation there is a huge gap between "Christian" and "secular". But maybe when it comes to the everyday life we place those labels on different people, actions, or even inanimate objects like music, when those labels were never meant to exist. What if, instead, we saw all truth as God's truth, and embraced truth in that way. We would then be able to embrace truth when we saw or heard it, whether it came from a "non-Christian person or band" or from a "Christian" person. What if we saw non-Christians not as the enemy that we are trying to convert, but as our 'neighbor' that we are trying to transform.
I like that. Especially since we have been talking about the whole non judgmental thing in your blog as well. I am coming to the conclusion that while I learn tons from those that are Christians, I learn just as much if not more from "Non-christians" Maybe I learn more how to treat people as I watch their example of either how to or not to treat people. Maybe i am just talking, i dunno. Can they see our transformation???
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