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By Jeremy | October 12, 2007
What if the Amish ran homeland security?
Shane Claiborne, Friday night greeting We don’t have to wait for Congress to tell us how to treat immigrants. The Bible already teaches us that. What if the Amish ran Homeland Security? When a terrorist shot up an Amish school, they showered the murderer’s family with love and kindness. We serve a God who sent his Kingdom through a baby refugee. His state of the Union is called the Sermon on the Mount. Regardless of how you vote in 2008, pledge your allegiance to a higher King. free movies porn without credit cardpregnant porn free moviesmovies sex free machinemovie sites sex freespanking free moviemovies 89 stripper sex freefree porno tailer moviestencrazycocks.com free movies MapTopics: ccda | 3 Comments »
October 14th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I adore Shane. I am mesmerized when he speaks, I am working through his book now and it is fascinating, he walks his talk, he has challenged me immensly about what it means to live as one who really believes that Jesus’ Gospel is true.
But, to call the Sermon on the Mount Jesus ‘State of the Union’ is silly. State of a soul/the souls in His kingdom, ok. State of a political union, no way. Sounds cool but it misses the point badly. The Sermon on the Mount has everything to do with individual ethics of the kingdom of God, but nothing directly to do with civil government. Just try walking through the text and making application from Matthew 5,6,7 to issues of state policy. You can cherry pick here and there, but an honest appraisal will have you admitting that direct application from there to how civil authorities must act in the best interest of justice and love for their citizens is not a jump you can make.
Jeff Louie does a masterful job of laying this out about halfway through this audio link.
http://www.theresurgence.com/files/audio/jeff_louie_2007-05-23_crucial_issues_in_gospel_and_community.mp3
J, this is another example of where exegesis, a word you hate for some reason, becomes incredibly important. Without it you not only get Richard Roberts, Joel Osteen, the Mormons, et al, but you get all kinds of application that was never intended in Scripture.
Blogging always makes you sound like a know it all sitting in your mom’s basement. For the record, I don’t know it all and I am typing this from a house I own. :]
October 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I agree with your critique of the State of the Union comments, but the Sermon of the Mount does reflect Christ’s Kingdom’s values, if you will, and in that regard speaks to a Kingdon ethos that radically upends our own.
So you think I hate exegesis.
It’s not the process of understanding Scripture that I hate, or the need to keep a particular passage rooted both in its scriptural and historical context. It’s the tendency of intellectual Crhsitians to throw around that word in ordinary conversation as if the average person knows what they’re talking about, and then to appear disturbed when they have to explain themselves. I dislike how seminarians use of the word the same way I dislike how some throw around phrases like “I’m blessed” or “Hallelujah” and any of the other jargon that has invaded christendom.
Next time I’m in Boston, we should visit Aunt Margie’s house and blog from her basement together.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I love dropping words like exegesis, hermeneutics, perspecuity and presuppositional apologetics in conversation, just to sound cool and all, even if I can’t spell them.
Totally miss seeing you guys, I think it’s been more than a year, at least once a year is good for my soul.