We often are tempted to think that the message is more important than the medium, that as long as we can share the message of the gospel, the rest doesn’t matter. As long as a soul is saved, who cares what else happens?
If we think this way, we will begin to lose sight of what the Church actually is…
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Dear Reader, have you ever been in a situation where you had no power? I remember being in a foreign country among refugees, learning that some of them had no documented status; they had entered the country years ago to avoid being killed in their home country, and now had no hope of education and no visible hope of what we would consider a viable future..
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As we navigate 2024, we see additional uncertainty with a looming U.S. presidential election, ongoing larger wars in places such as Myanmar, Israel/Palestine, North Africa, Sudan, and Russia/ Ukraine, and a time roughly four years into a post-Covid world.
It’s with all of this in mind that we are reminded of Moses’s prayer, asking God to “teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
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If you’re like me, you may have grown up thinking white supremacy meant the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) and other extremist racist groups that took extreme action including acts of physical violence (e.g. lynchings) to ensure white people maintained power. While this is a subsection of white supremacy, it is an incomplete view of it.
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We can suffer from allergies as the body of Christ. And like the springtime, there can be seasons where experiences and perspectives cause our “immune system” (discernment) to go on the offensive.
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What happens when a seasoned devilish fiend instructs his young protege on effective strategies for tempting the human he’s assigned to, doing all they can to assure the poor soul’s steady downward spiral to destruction and damnation through systematic separations from his family, friends, and his precious Creator..?
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