If Your Vision Isnt Full Orbed

I last quoted Swanson as he noted that we tend to see life in a piece meal fashion which will tend to lead one see a tree but miss the forest.

“Sometimes Christians will take a determined stand on one isolated issue, but their worldview lacks a coherence because it lacks a comprehensive and full orbed view of history, politics, anthropology, epistemology, sociology , economics, ecclesiology, and medicine. Thus this half baked, piecemeal approach will produce very little if any, long term positive results.”

“For lack of vision, Christian activism is saddled with both lack of unity and direction. ...As long as the agenda is more framed by pragmatism and utilitarianism than by the heart commitment to Gods law we will continue to fight losing battles...”

Here is a an example, recently the Southern Baptist Conference , as noted by Chalcedon, wrestled with the issue of govt schools and Marriage…

..At the SBC’s annual meeting last week, the church’s Resolutions Committee stifled a resolution calling on the SBC to urge the removal of Christian children from California public schools. The resolution was not allowed out of committee for a vote on the convention floor…

…The amendment was defeated, said church leaders, because the Resolutions Committee was “trying to stay focused” on the marriage issue and did not want to be distracted by “the corollary issues of the education system at this time.”

It is hard to imagine anything more pusillanimous.
What Will the Children Think?

By leaving the children in the public schools, where they will be taught—starting in kindergarten—that Christian morality is wrong, the SBC has pulled its own teeth.

What are children to think, when their church and their parents say “gay marriage” is wrong, yet leave them in schools where they are taught “gay marriage” is right? If Christian teachings are supposed to be authoritative, are not the schools in the wrong for teaching the opposite? But if the schools are wrong, will not the children eventually have to ask, “Then what are we doing here?”

If the schools were forcefully teaching Islam or Hinduism, would the SBC insist that Christian children remain there? Is one form of anti-Christian teaching to be preferred to another?...

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