Monday, February 16, 2009
finally, a post!
Last week as we finished up the group decided to spend more time in discussion about areas in our life that we might not see Jesus' kingship as "good news". Good new or not, if we are citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are left with the fact that there is one king, Jesus. What does that fact say in a pluralistic, relativistic society? I'll chime in once this gets going, for now I'm happy to finally be getting this post out there. Sorry for the delay and thanks for your patience...aaron
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ReplyDeleteHello Everyone, sorry to miss you all last week. I'm wondering how the discussion went regarding Jesus' kingship in our lives. Jesus too lived in a pluralistic (sadducees, pharisees, Romans, gentiles, etc) and relativistic (rich ruler, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?") society, but he always seemed to get to the heart of the issues. This is an interesting question, because it asks me to look at Jesus influence in ALL areas of my life. How does Jesus influence my finances, work, family, time, resources, thoughts, decisions, questions?
ReplyDeleteWow, Greg wasn't even there and he understood the question right away! I struggled with the topic. I do have a problem that not all my beliefs are in sync with my faith. I am fairly liberal politically and worry that liberal politics make me a hypocrite Christian. If I vote No on Prop 8 do I have a right to call myself a Christian?
ReplyDeleteSusan (thebeautiful) Fortner
Greg, I think historical perspective is always difficult. Brian McLaren talks about this in one of his books. He states that language removed from its immediate context can easily be misrepresented. For example..."Congress was shaken when it failed to override the president's veto"...outside of understanding our current methods of speech it would be easy to think an earthquake or something worse shook congress. I wonder about the "relative" definition at times given our limited perspective of history. Fortunately Jesus "kingship", while subject to the convictions of the holy spirit, is absolute. Hi influence over all areas of my life is a far reaching proposition.
ReplyDeleteSusan, many of the hypocrites we see in scripture likely never asked that question of themselves. As for political views, i think you may be surprised by some of the political leanings of different people in the group. Not that our political leanings should define us...but i believe you will find some well thought out approaches to applying Jesus kingship to our politics...thanks for the replies!