Matt's Blog

This is what makes these discussions so frustrating. (I talk a good game with doctrine isn't everything, but I get cranky when people don't agree with me too.) Christians read, and pray, and discuss, and then we come up with different, conflicting, clashing viewpoints, all based on study, prayer and discussion with other believers. I didn't think this exchange would result in any ideas being changed, just wanted to understand where you are coming from (which I think I got - thanks), but there's something in me that still wants you, or whoever I'm talking to, to come to the same conclusions I have. We're all sitting in the perfect spot. (Not crazy about the lables, but . . .) Anyone to the left of me is on a slippery slope. Anyone to my right is mired in legalism. As I move (and don't we all as we grow), so does my scale and all those around me. The trick, as in tricky, as in how do we do this, is staying together as body that believes all these different things. And it's not just the believing that's the problem, it's the acting. Our faith without actions is dead faith. So one group wants to act to welcome homosexuals, one to change them, one to get women on the board, one to keep them off, one to sing with a band, one to sing with no music. Can a local church survive coming together to worship and then going out and working in smaller, sometimes conflicting groups? Or is that the only way they can survive without splitting apart?