CNN ran a recent story titled "Progressive group starts training pro-abortion rights religious leaders."
This causes me to think, once again, how Christians are coming to be defined in the US. We seem to be viewed as people of various agendas.
We're all about abortion and contraception - on one side or the other.
We're all about immigration - how to keep people out or in.
We're all about nailing down the true American way - as various forms of either conservative or progressive.
(On that note: What exactly is it that we wish to conserve? Is everything worth conserving? And what does it mean to be progressive? What "progresses" people? What are people progressing from, and toward, and by what power?)
If I remember correctly, we are to be people of the Spirit of God, called to be his people for the sake, blessing, and reconciliation of the world. We are called to proclaim and demonstrate the reality of the kingdom of God. We are to be branded with the name of Jesus, living as people willing to drink his cup and submit to his baptism. I think all that's in the Bible somewhere.
People of the Spirit? or People of the Agenda?
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It's all about externalities - people with agendas fit neatly into the narrow little labels we have for others.
(This brings to mind something I heard on NPR the other day - Santorum backpedaling because a fiery preacher introduced him and said something to the effect of "America is a Christian nation. If you don't love the one true God, Jesus, GET OUT!" So sweet and loving and spirit-filled...)
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