I decided that I needed a place to put all of my ideas, current work, random stuff. This is part of my ongoing project of trying to be more organized and focused as a person, and it seems that this will become more and more important as life seems to be getting busier and busier. Keep an eye on this blog, as I hope to contribute to it on a regular basis.
For my first post, here’s a note I sent to Focus on the Family about their new debacle that is standforchristmas.com.
The entire text of the note that I sent them on their support site – I will update this post if I ever see a response:
What is the motivation behind this website? I’m probably about to say some things that are likely to fall on deaf ears at FotF, but I hope that someone will respond to me.
I am a Christian, I’ve served in the local church for years, I love the Church, and I love Christ. What I don’t understand is the motivation for something like this. I don’t understand the mentality that we need to correct the world’s behavior in lieu of leading them to the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.
This is not the approach that Jesus used in the Bible. He never asked someone to correct their behavior before he healed them physically or spiritually. Grace always came first, then the He and the Holy Spirit reserve the right to give people a heart of conviction for their sins.
I just don’t understand why we should expect people to behave like Christians when they are not. I don’t understand why we would condemn others for exercising their religious freedoms, and then claim that their right to say whatever they want is hindering our right to share the love of Christ with the world.
Christmas is, by and large, a consumer holiday. Why should I be offended that some underpaid kid behind the counter at Gap rings up my over-priced jeans that were made by some small child in a sweat shop overseas and then wishes me a “Happy Holiday” as I leave? Would it be better for him to pretend to be a Christian, assume that I am, and wish me a “Merry Christmas?”
Aren’t there more important issues in the world than this? Is chastising people and companies for not treating Christians as the elite of the world really the best way to reach the lost?