Ok, I'm back. I had a great weekend with the fam and haven't been online in about a week due to work and life. Good to see everybody AND HEAR EVERYBODY. There certainly has been a lot of activity here on the old covblog page while I was absent. Looks like most everybody's talking about homosexuality this Easter break -- that and getting their SIPs finished. Well, I have a question:
Why do we handle sin the ways we do? And I do mean ways in the plural. We are rather inconsistent in this regard. I got an email from a friend lately who was asking: "What if I ended up doing X...?" This person seriously doubted the consistency and compassion of his Christian friends' reactions...
BY the way: We = American evangelicals (others feel free to comment).
Posted by nickles at March 28, 2005 03:58 PMThat's a question I'd like to answer, but I feel this medium is increasingly limiting my ability to do so. Perhaps I can see you sometime, and we'll talk - I've been thinking (out loud, with people) about that sort of thing a bit this weekend myself.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at March 28, 2005 05:34 PMI almost feel as if we don't think about what to do with sin. We just react and then seek to reassert the status quo. What's needed, maybe, are more disciplined reactions, if we're doomed to reacting anyway. A disciplined reaction might look like this: pray, serve, love, and confront. You can't put carts before horses, in other words...
And don't get too bummed about this medium of communication, Evan. It definitely has limitations -- no doubt in my mind about that -- but there are some nice things associated with forcing people to write out their thoughts and then see them on a screen alongside the thoughts of others.
Posted by: bob at March 28, 2005 06:02 PM