Go here: www.evangelicaloutpost.com and read the entry "Plagued by Certainty". it's a little wordy at first, but i've never heard this vantage point before...feeling misunderstood because of the certainty of your faith, rather than your doubt. interesting. it is usually the doubting side of things that people struggle with, and you hear them talk about wishing they had more faith so that they would know what "Mr. So-and-so" was talking about. i've never even considered the possibility that there might be someone so grounded and certain in their faith that they feel like no one understands them...like they should doubt more than they do. crazy. read it.
posted by Charla at 10:24 AM
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I don't have a great answer for that. Paul spoke of being a Jew with Jews, Greek with Greeks, and so on in order to be an effective witness for Christ. My mom constantly hounds me about the "stumble rule" (that is her reason for not getting a tattoo, drinking, etc.), but I think we can take that too far. You are correct that we have freedom from sin, which only comes when we shift our focus from either ourselves. If someone's intentions for leading "separate lives" as you call them is not deceitful, then I would say they are doing the right thing as long as they are not ashamed of either life when it is discovered by it's critics. If you drink, don't be ashamed when a church member finds out. If you don't drink in public b/c of those church memebers, don't be ashamed when one of your drinking buddies finds out you wouldn't go to the bar but instead partook at home. Does that make sense? It's 3:40 am and after reading Franz Wright (I highly recommend him), I have had such an emotional onslaught that I don't think I can convey anything of value.
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