Thought of the Day 01.29.09

It’s human nature to overreact.

If you were asked to give a formal presentation on the history of errors in the Christian Church and you only spoke this single sentence, you might risk losing your speaking fee, but you would have very little risk of having exaggerated the truth.

For instance, ever since relativism came on the scene, the Church has been in hyper-correction mode, proclaiming absolutism as the only safe alternative. But the notion that the legitimate expression of Christianity can only ever take one form also has a name: idealism.

Jesus did come as a freeborn Jewish man, but Galatians 3:28 clearly teaches that Christianity will not be manifested only in those categories. The seed of the Spirit will sprout an infinite variety of flowers, depending upon the soil of circumstance. Thus, Christianity will look different in the lives of each person and certainly in the collections of lives we call cultures.

This doesn’t mean that anything goes, but it does allow us to honor the creativity of God while also rejecting whatever He does not create.