Faith Well Grounded

Well, I’m back. I’m hoping to be able to post more often, and I apologize for the lay-off to anyone out there who may enjoy reading my posts. As excuse, my college-age ministry has been taking quite a bit of time. But anyway...

1Jo 3:18 Little children, we must stop loving in word and in tongue, but instead love in action and in truth.

The Vatican released a document stating that any church apart from the Roman Catholic Church is not a true church. Protestants everywhere are outraged. Story here...

Why?

All that the Vatican has done is restate the tautology that they have always held. If Protestants look to the Roman Catholic Church for assurances that we are the Body and Bride of Christ, then there are bigger problems here than mere perception and theological ego.

Why is it so easy to fall into the "us against them" mentality? I see this a lot in Christianity-- especially apologetics. We see those who oppose the gospel as infidels, enemies to God, those who we must refute! Why is it so against our human nature to see them as those most in need of God? Why is it that so many refuse to show God's love to those who most need to see it?

Rom 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Space rocks...

I'm often asked if I'm a creationist. And I'm always surprized by the question. I'll clarify. If you are talking to a Christian, you are talking to a creationist. Every Christian should believe that God created everything.

But the term "creationist" seems to have been exclusively attached to "recent-creationists", or "young-Earth-creationists". There is the possibility that God created the Universe eons ago, and then created Adam intact as a mature human. It's not just a question of evolution vs. a young Earth.

I was recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. It’s painful. It sometimes keeps me from doing even the simplest of tasks, like tying my shoes, or playing ball with my son. At its worst, it keeps me from doing what I’m here to do—be a good father, husband, employee, etc… It’s so fierce and debilitating because it’s actually my body attacking itself. My immune system mistakes my joints and organs for intruders and attacks them.