Deja Vu from “The Matrix”
Do you ever wonder why you seem to keep hearing the same thing over and over again? I don’t mean the mudslinging political ads that say the same things about different candidates ever four years. I mean things that directly affect your daily life, how you respond to events, and your thought processes in general.
Some might say that an overactive conscience can bring someone to believe that everything they hear is directed towards them personally. Others would say that it’s the universe keeping itself in balance. I think most Christians would say that it’s probably God trying to tell you something.
In my last post, I wrote about how an inner need to win arguments points towards a clef-centeredness rather than a God-centered life. I have a tendency to argue and fight with other Christians about issues that can have a very political tilt. Issues that I have always thought as black and white have become muddied and grey in our culture today, but I continue to want to fight the battle from the perspective of absolutes.
Last night, and again this morning, I listened to Lee Kricher’s most recent sermon from Pittsburgh East Community Church. Their current series is about those grey areas of life where everything doesn’t quite line up in neat little rows:
Grey Matter
As Christ-followers, some issues in life seem to be straightforward and clear – others don’t. This series is about how we should draw conclusions about the “grey” areas of life – and how we should respond to others who have drawn different conclusions.
In his sermon, Lee references Romans 14 and brings up the point that it is not out place to judge each other’s convictions. Christians can have very strong convictions on either side of an argument. Instead of picking a side of an argument then going to the Scriptures to find verses to back us up, we should be reading the Scriptures on our own and drawing our conclusions about issues from what God tells us through His Word.
I’d encourage you to check out this series from Pittsburgh East Community Church.
It is more important to have the right attitude toward God and others than to have the right political persuasion.
– @Leekricher