Gelukkige HerdenkingsDag…
Geschreven door Mark Van Steenwyk: 28 mei, 2007
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O.k., nadat u op dat let, lees een uitstekende post door één van mijn favoriete bloggers hier ongeveer HerdenkingsDag en godsdienstige syncretism van de staat.
Ik denk het grappig is dat de HerdenkingsDag en Pentecost het zelfde weekend dit jaar deelden. Ik verdenk dat, voor de meeste Christenen in Amerika, de HerdenkingsDag een grotere identiteit-vormende rol dan Pentecost heeft.
voor verdere lezing. . .
- Gevonden niets
De ogen van de mijn hebben de glorie van de komst van Lord gezien:
Hij vertrappelt uit de wijnoogst waar de druiven van toorn worden opgeslagen;
Hij hath maakte de fateful bliksem van Zijn vreselijk vlug zwaard los:
Zijn waarheid marcheert.
Glorie, glorie, hallelujah!
Glorie, glorie, hallelujah!
Glorie, glorie, hallelujah!
Zijn waarheid marcheert.
neem dat u pacifict
Ik behaalde hoge school in de vroege jaren '90 een diploma, en ik herinner goed debat het van de „Gezette God in scholen“. Dat was ook de tijd u Christelijke T-shirts moet dragen en slechts aan christelijke muziek luisteren. Het was zeer hen - versus ons mentaliteit. Niets over liefde, het helen, of transformatie.
Toen I eerste Carmen op klem I soort gegrinnikt zag omdat ik me herinner gaand hem in overleg zien, dan dacht ik ik me aan iedereen zou moeten verontschuldigen ik naar hoge school met en bespreking meer naar hen over Jesus dan hun zonde ging.
Well, though the truth of our founding fathers faith was far more complicated, there is no doubt that they were all strongly impacted by Christianity and were relatively speaking people of integrity.
The sin here is more one of omission. There’s no mention of how the flawed form of Christianity that became prevalent in the US was behind its decline and the festering of the serious problems that face us today. It is trite to simply call people to the Bible, without also dealing with the many issues of discipleship that we need to deal with our current problems domestic and int’l with integrity.
I just watched Miracle with Kurt Russell and thought about the patriotic themes and religious syncretism in that movie. The best thing about that movie is that the US hockey team won by virtue of its willingness to learn from its opponents and subvert our individualism to act as a team, putting the name on the front before the name on the back. These are definitely Christian values, but they’re not necessarily typical of the USA today and its not like we own the property rights on them.
I am very thankful for the extent to which Christianity has had an impact on the United States. I wish that was more the case and that more countries were more impacted by Christainity. I remember feeling really sad when one of my students in Mexico told me that his hopes for the future lay with the US. He didn’t have much hope for his own country. If all that has been noble in our country has ultimately stemmed from God then there shd be nothing preventing others from also demonstrating these characteristics. Its just up to us to let our lights shine and help to turn the tide, internationally, in part by prophetically and lovingly challenging the deeply flawed forms of Christianity that have been prevalent and are going to be transformed or lose ground.
dlw