I've been thinking.....

I know that’s the scariest thing some people have ever heard. I think too much most of the time. I was thinking about Christians. I think we have become one of the most arrogant group of people in the nation. I’m not going to say the world because I find it hard to believe that the underground church in China is getting up on its high horse. No. We ‘western’ Christians are mighty high and mighty all on our own right. I was listening to a “Christian” talk show on the radio and they said it was our moral duty to be 100% involved with politics so that our nation doesn’t fall in to rack and ruin. They said we are to “occupy until Chirst comes” and that means politics. It’s time to pass anti-gay legislation before God rains down judgement. Now, I am no Bible scholar, heck, I’m not even a scholar of any kind, but that’s a gross mis-representation of what was meant, don’t you think? Let’s ask a rhetorical question, “Were the Christians in Rome able to “occupy” in that manner?” I am pretty sure that they had absolutely NO political influence except to make Caeser more popular with the masses. Do you think that they were planning to get involved with the political process at the time or do you think they were busy praying that God would deliver them from the lions? Or maybe that they would be strong for God during their trial. What about the Christians in Muslim countries where it is a punishable offense to even be a Christian? Do you think the meaning of the word occupy means to get involved in politics to them? Or maybe it means that they remain strong in their faith even as they try to avoid imprisonment or even death. I believe in voting and taking advantage of the freedoms we share as a great country, but I don’t think we are called by Christ to pass exclusionary legislation, or victorian laws. Why on God’s great green earth do you think that the gays are somehow to blame for the break down of the American family? Aren’t the people getting married and having children and getting divorced more to blame than some guy you don’t even know loving some other guy? Get serious! The break down of the American nuclear ‘family’ is an issue that has little to do with sexual orientation. It has to do with a serious lack of commitment. The divorce rate in the ‘Church’ is as high or higher than secular society. Whose fault is that???? Men and women ripping apart families is the tragedy here. Children being shifted from parent to parent on weekends, wondering what they did to make mommy and daddy not love them, or each other, anymore, is the crisis. Stop talking about how the gays are making society evil and work on your own house. Basically, Get the telephone pole out of your own eye before you go looking for the splinter you think might be in someone else’s. Let’s stop hating and start loving as Christ invited us to do. God did not say to fear your fellow man, but to love him. Let us begin to examine our own lives and walk our own walk. Let us stop trying to walk other people’s walk for them. I’m not telling you not to vote. As a matter of fact I think you should. I am just wondering if we should occupy in faith and love or in fear and hate.