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(63.184.209.145) on 12/2/2004 - 3:46 p.m. says: ( 3 views
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This is the danger of religious leadership -- there is too much temptation to believe our ideas and plans are a mandate from God. Religious zeal moves the matter outside the realm of discussion or evaluation. "God wants us to do this" is hard to argue with.
The collapse of theology in the last 100 years and the failure of new evangelical leaders to learn much of it has crippled those who seek to live as XNs in the public arena. There is impatience with the tedious and time consuming process of learning theology from those who really know it and then letting that theology percolate into the disciplines of thought and action. So people rush straight from "Homosexual acts are sin" to "Ban books about -- and by people who practice -- homosexuality". People rush from "Abortion is killing" to "We must burn places where abortions are done." A shaky, cantilevered bridge is built from presuppositions to the policies that are desired and no one notices that truly biblical positions are left behind and often transgressed.
XNs need to operate with persuasion and not coercion and they need the practice of working to persuade non-XNs and not just other XNs. The discipline of constructing an argument is valuable.
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