Fundamentalists are intolerant of themselves?
Check out this BP News story…
Christians should ‘wake up, clean up,’ Okla. exec says
Citing Romans 13:11-14, Jordan said Paul’s message to the church in Rome is a message that still rings true 2,000 years later.
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“This is a contemporary message to us, because everything Paul deals with in this chapter also tells us it’s time to wake up from our stupor,” Jordan said. “It’s time for the church to wake up, to clean up, to dress up and to light up.”
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“I’m a man of flesh, and I struggle with sin just like other people do; and so do you,” Jordan stressed. “Paul says to the church of Jesus Christ, ‘It’s time for you to clean up, to lay aside every sin that so easily besets us, as the writer of Hebrews said.”
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“We sit in darkness because we love the darkness rather than the light, because our deeds are evil. Now, if we were only talking about people outside the church, we could relax. But that’s not who Paul is writing to. Paul is writing to the church. He’s telling the church it has a responsibility to clean up so it can walk circumspectly before God.”
Baptists (or Fundamentalists as they are sometimes called) are often accused of being power-hungry, homophobic, intolerant, etc. If that is true, how are we to interpret this story?
Maybe it’s not that they are power-hungry, homophobic, or intolerant. Maybe they are just concerned about sin and how it damages our lives. Maybe they are not ignorant of how our sin grieves a Holy God. Maybe they are aware of how a believer’s sin hinders his growth and walk with God. Maybe it’s better to deal with a small problem now before it becomes a big problem later. Maybe it’s impossible for the church to be salt and light if it looks and acts like an unbelieving world?
Ouch! My toes have been stepped on once again. As much as it hurts to hear it sometimes, I can’t argue with Biblical truth.
Tags: Theology
