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July 12, 2005
> 11:17 AM
dominoes This is very liable to be a disjointed attempt at written thought, but here goes. It's amazing to me the number of people who seem to not be able to connect A and B and see that they could well equal C. What I mean to say is - things are connected. The things we do or choose not to do are not in a vacuum. If I am convinced of something, say theologically, and my life logically lines up in the direction of my sincere belief or conviction, then other things will follow. That belief or conviction does not exist on it's own, sitting alone in a corner not interacting with anything else. If, proverbially, it is egg-shaped, and it surrounds me, I will not be able to go through narrow, straight openings. If it is jagged and pointy, and it surrounds me, is a part of me and my person, as these things should be, then when I walk near others it will jab into their bodies and effect them. Point being, things effect other things which then go on to effect even other other things. It's problematic to want to have everything be peaceful and nice. The world being what it presently is, that doesn't work. I mean we're not quite all at the same level of union with the Divine and creation itself is internally screwed up so we're sort of not in a vacuum ourselves. There are many things that are not as they ought to be. There are crooked, bent, twisted things that we are part of. We may not even know how twisted. And that matters, because things effect other things, remember. We cannot afford to go around thinking everything is fine, everything is OK, what you do and what I do is cool because God loves us and it's all really not that important anyway. That kind of thought system, to me, is very destructive - or at least it's very much a Kingdom roadblock. It's a big ole fat artery clogger. Everything is not OK. Every thing we think or do is not just fine and dandy. Some are downright harmful to us and others and to the whole fabric of the Kingdom of God on earth. We need to realize that. I've talked about this as relates to church before. I thought, this time, I'd try a little simple logic - common sense really - first. It just concerns me when we try so hard not to offend, so hard to come off accepting of everyone and their way, so tolerant. Sounds bad doesn't it? Probably. Thinking - thinking is in order. That's what I'm trying to say. We need to think about what we do or don't do, as the church, as a gathered body of people in Christ - how it effects our lives, our life together, how it effects the very spreading of the Kingdom of God everywhere. Everything is a Domino. And all Dominoes will be tipped over at some point. They don't sit still, in the context of this analogy. Even if they did, they would effect the room in which they sat. People would see it standing there on the floor or table and wonder about it. It would distract their random thought processes. If it fell over, the sound waves would go forth and ears would pick them up. It DOES matter. It might matter deeply. Think about that. 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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