Reading all the recent words spent fighting about abortion, assisted suicide, gay marriage, and stem cell research, I wonder what the example of Jesus was/is?
Did Jesus spend his days arguing with the Romans about their laws regarding abortion?
Or ...
Did Jesus spend his days arguing with the Greeks about homosexuality? [btw: Did Paul argue with the Greek pagans about such topics - or was he following someone else's example?]
Or ...
Did Jesus argue with any civil authority about anything?
Or ...
Did Jesus instruct and show his followers how to behave and why agreeing with God's point of view was important for those who actually followed him?
And ...
Were not ALL of Paul's letters written to believers or those who claimed to be believers?
And ...
Why didn't Jesus [and Paul] take on the civil authorities directly and instruct His followers to do the same?
And ...
Were not Jesus' words, and Paul's after him, directed to those who were supposed to be the "light to the nations" or something like that?
And, finally, ...
What is the log of self-righteousness?
Hint: Matthew 7
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And no, I am not saying that abortion, assisted suicide, gay marriage, and stem cell research are not to be opposed by believers.
Surely, opposition at the polls and in our public statements is necessary.
I will suggest that opposition in the supporters' ball parks is done under their ground rules. Perhaps the opposition needs to be done through lives that are in fact called-out, elect, and separated [read: holy].
I do believe that simply pointing out these wrongs and identifying the wrong doers are predominantly acts of self-righteousness and self-satisfaction with "being saved" so now "everyone else should be like me."
I think we who call ourselves believers should be a lot more like Jesus and a lot less like each other.
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