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Let me tell you a story.
When I was a kid, my family was generally irreligious. We never went to church on Sundays, never attended Christmas or Easter services, and never spoke about God in any meaningful way.
To be fair, my mother had some history with the church, but it focused more on meeting humanitarian needs rather than the questions of sin and salvation. She served as a treasurer’s assistant and kept minutes of board meetings, too, but attendance was never her interest.
Yet another high-profile pastor, Steven Lawson of Trinity Bible Church in Dallas, has been fired over an inappropriate relationship with a woman. What is in the water in Texas?
This is another opportunity for detractors to take a swipe at the Christian community and its leadership. And that is unfortunate.
But this raises a deeper problem within the church walls. Who is immune from temptation if not the devout?
The bible clearly states that everyone has a predisposition to sin—some sins greater and some lesser, but sin, nonetheless.
If I asked you what you worship, you might roll your eyes and say, “Here comes another lecture on idols and gods from some Christian zealot.”
But if I asked you, “What thing do you think about most or what do you do the most whether for pleasure or work,” you would probably have an answer. And if you did not, someone in your circle of friends and family would know.
I believe we might agree, people tend to focus on certain interests to the exclusion of others.
I have been pushing myself recently.
To try and understand the atheistic ideology and worldview, I have recently read various materials and listened to debates by a couple of prominent detractors of the Christian faith, namely Sam Harris and posthumously, Christopher Hitchens. These men are and were formidable foes and counterpoints to the Judeo/Christian ethic.
I suppose I could go digging around in their past, their upbringing, their passions, their sexual orientations,
Goethe, the eighteenth-century playwright, once said, “Let everyone sweep in front of his own doorstep and the whole world will be clean.”
I saw something the other day that impressed me and caused me to consider my own behavior and, sadly, my failings. I was in the commercial parking lot with Staples, Big 5, and Taco Bell, had just parked my truck, and was headed-in to the office supply store.
Last week I said I was worried. This week I feel a little melancholy. Next week I should probably see a shrink…
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