IF THE POPES STANCE DOESNT CONVINCE ME TO CONVERT, I MIGHT HAVE TO BECOME A BAPTIST. From The Baptist Standard: It’s so catastrophic, we tend to overlook a single simplifying factor: We’re talking about children. Why can’t we start by agreeing nothing like this ever should happen to children? Then, why can’t we work out from there? Treat them with love and respect and nurture, as if they were our very own. Secure their safety, both now and going forward. Christians should be leading the way You’d think Christians would be leading the way. After all, God created these children in God’s own image. Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14). Jesus told us we will be judged by how we treat “the least of these,” and nobody in this hemisphere is more vulnerable than these children. But we’re hearing Christians, even a preacher who should know better, express more concern for the sanctity of our borders than the safety of children. The problem is our society—Christians included—has made an idol of our nation. We think more highly of what happens within our borders than we do of what happens to people created in God’s image. We worry more about the economy than the ebola virus ravaging western Africa. We have taken something good—patriotic love for and appreciation of a blessed nation. We have perverted it to think our comfort and exceptionally high standard of living are of more concern to God than the grave travesty and injustice suffered by the world’s most vulnerable.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:51:32 +0000
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