Friday, January 27, 2006
Have We Fallen For It?
The A-Team blog wonders:
But then we don't, not really. There are people that think is wholly spiritual terms and there are peole that think in wholly materialistic terms, but that is how, I think, it is supposed to be.
The answer to the materialistic tendencies that worry Amy so is not, necessarily, in trying to become less worldy, but in embracing my less worldly brethren. Together we will get it right. Amy sets up her concerns this way
But the point of arguement is not always to win, sometimes its to find common ground. A common ground that places both you and I where we should be. The problem is not argument, but how we argue, and to what end.
Related Tags: church, argument, differences, similarities, Christinaity, I Corintihians
How has the Church been lured into this materialistic thinking? How did we come to view the world through the same eyes as the materialists?This is an excellent question, but there is a corollary. There are whole branches of Christianity that are so spiritual they forget that God came to save this world. The question, I think, ought to be phrased more in term of why do we polarize?
But then we don't, not really. There are people that think is wholly spiritual terms and there are peole that think in wholly materialistic terms, but that is how, I think, it is supposed to be.
1 Cor 12:4-6 - Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. And there are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.The problem is not that I am this way and you are that way - the problem is we do not talk to each other.
The answer to the materialistic tendencies that worry Amy so is not, necessarily, in trying to become less worldy, but in embracing my less worldly brethren. Together we will get it right. Amy sets up her concerns this way
The assertion that people only argue over ideas because they're trying to maintain their power over others has been appearing again and again in the Christian material I've been reading lately.She says that is an utterly materialistic view - I think its an honest look at our sinful nature. When I argue with you, I want to "win," and that is, in some sense a power play.
But the point of arguement is not always to win, sometimes its to find common ground. A common ground that places both you and I where we should be. The problem is not argument, but how we argue, and to what end.
Related Tags: church, argument, differences, similarities, Christinaity, I Corintihians
