Monday, November 07, 2005
"It's easier to talk about a person than to help a person. It's easier to debate homosexuality than to be a friend to a gay person. It's easier to discuss divorce than to help the divorced. It's easier to argue abortion than to support an orphanage. It's easier to complain about the welfare system than to help the poor.
It's easier to label than to love.
It's especially easy to talk theology. Such discussions make us feel righteous. Self-righteous."
I agree with Max Lucado when he said that.
It is so easy for us to become rah-rahing bench warming Christians. We love to sit and criticize those around us, "she should be doing that differently, the old people should not run the church, we need an organ not a piano, we have too many programs, the church should have more programs". We've produced a nation of benchwarming Christians, and in it's wake we are reaping the consequences - Christians who do not know what it is like to be involved in the front lines. Sure, you get hurt in the battle, you fall, you're attacked, the mountains seems bigger then your strength - but it's in the game that you make that shot from half court with three seconds left, and it sails through the net and you win.
It's easier to label than to love.
It's especially easy to talk theology. Such discussions make us feel righteous. Self-righteous."
I agree with Max Lucado when he said that.
It is so easy for us to become rah-rahing bench warming Christians. We love to sit and criticize those around us, "she should be doing that differently, the old people should not run the church, we need an organ not a piano, we have too many programs, the church should have more programs". We've produced a nation of benchwarming Christians, and in it's wake we are reaping the consequences - Christians who do not know what it is like to be involved in the front lines. Sure, you get hurt in the battle, you fall, you're attacked, the mountains seems bigger then your strength - but it's in the game that you make that shot from half court with three seconds left, and it sails through the net and you win.