More from the book we're reading...

Here's another challenging quote from the book we're reading (by Donald Miller). We add these both to challenge others and to let peope know how we're processing life, what we're learning. This quote concerns our Community's fixation on morality and how it might be going awry.

"I do not believe aa person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marraige, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the summ ofhis morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and theenvironment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest."

This really makes one question the kind of emotional and physical energy we give to things. Perhaps we are so selective that we neglect other things equally evil and destructive, like gluttony, greed, apathy, complaining, drunkeness, addictions, .... We both forget how easily we humans have a tendency to draw "morality lines" up to the issues that we don't struggle with, meanwhile minimizing (even trivializing) those we do.

The Reformation helped us set Scripture over traditon with respect to Bib lical interpretation; yet, we have been challenged to make sure that Scripture also has supremacy over our (social and political) traditions in practice.