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The most dangerous people would be whom?

I am sure that everyone can come up with a list. What I find interesting though, from my informal personal poll over the years, is the difference in what scares Christians verses non Christians.

Non Christians seem to be concerned are about rapists, terrorists, and perverts who might try to lure their children into a care after school. Christians on the other hand, while also concerend about the list above, seem to obsess on various demons, non-conformists (a different view than theirs), and acceptable church doctrine (that which is not acceptable to the Christian is of course heresy).

In other words, Christians are always on the look out for cults and evil villians!

How have we gotten so caught up in these issues that have replaced love, mercy, and forgiveness. I had a conversation this afternoon with a person who said, “You and I talk a lot but we never talk about what we disagree about. We talk about what the possibilites of life might be.” I had never thought about it in those terms, but it is true.

Don’t you enjoy talking about what might be, could be, and how we can be a part of future Kingdom building. Like that great Englishman once said, “Some people see things that ARE and ask WHY, I see things that NEVER have been and ask WHY NOT?”

Why can’t we?

Why can’t we love everyone? Why can’t we not judge others? Why must we demand that everyone be like us? Who is there that you feel you must withhold your love from? Why can’t we eat pork? What’s wrong with having Buddhist and Hindu friends? Must we try and convert everyone to our religion? Who says everything in the Bible is literal?

And just because Luther liked to drink late into Saturday, and even into the wee hours of Sunday, why must we have church on Sunday at 11:00am because he did? Did you know that’s why most churches meet on Sunday mornings at 11? Of course the wise tale is because farmers needed to get their chores done before church. How we like to purify our past indiscretions.

Why do we do a lot of things we do? Why does mama cut the ends off of the ham? Probably for the same reason we do a lot of things for which there is no rational reason.

Maybe that why we’re moving to a Friday night service (no more Sunday services) in January , 2007. Maybe it’s because we really should have a Sabbath REST on Sunday. Maybe it’s because we are truly becoming FREE: a community of people seeking God outside of the need to be doing so in a herd. Maybe it’s because God knows there are people who need a Friday night gathering, and a weekend free.

Maybe it doesn’t have anything to do with anything? Who knows, but God? What I do know is that God doesn’t care when you have church or how often. He just wants a communtiy of people to walk in unity loving Him, making Him their focus.

How about you?”