2.15.2004
What if?
Here's the real scary thought. What if we all get to heaven and we're standing around the throne and someone finally asks, "Which of us had it right?" And Jesus smiled warmly down at each of us and said, "Well you had it right about (doctrine) and he had it right about (a different doctrine) and they had it right about (a different doctrine still)." Continuing on down until all of us realized that none of us had it completely and totally right but none of us (who made it of course but that's another discussion) had it all wrong either. This is a grossly oversimplified view of what I'm carrying in my head and heart at the moment regarding my fellows on the journey.
We aren't all hobbits or elves or dwarves or wizards or men. And even when we have similarities of kind there are differences of character. There are orcs and trolls and uruk-hai out there so we need to make sure we understand who the enemy is and who our friends are. Elves and dwarves may have seemingly antithetical points of view but there are more points of agreement than disagreement when the wider world is considered.
Why can't we all form a Fellowship? A (dare I say it?) "Body of Christ" as it were; made up of separate, distinct, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes complementary, but always unified members?
That's my vision.
Which is prolly why I will end up burned at the stake as a heretic some day.
Here's the real scary thought. What if we all get to heaven and we're standing around the throne and someone finally asks, "Which of us had it right?" And Jesus smiled warmly down at each of us and said, "Well you had it right about (doctrine) and he had it right about (a different doctrine) and they had it right about (a different doctrine still)." Continuing on down until all of us realized that none of us had it completely and totally right but none of us (who made it of course but that's another discussion) had it all wrong either. This is a grossly oversimplified view of what I'm carrying in my head and heart at the moment regarding my fellows on the journey.
We aren't all hobbits or elves or dwarves or wizards or men. And even when we have similarities of kind there are differences of character. There are orcs and trolls and uruk-hai out there so we need to make sure we understand who the enemy is and who our friends are. Elves and dwarves may have seemingly antithetical points of view but there are more points of agreement than disagreement when the wider world is considered.
Why can't we all form a Fellowship? A (dare I say it?) "Body of Christ" as it were; made up of separate, distinct, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes complementary, but always unified members?
That's my vision.
Which is prolly why I will end up burned at the stake as a heretic some day.
