We let some of the most stupid stuff stand like it is self attesting truth

Some thinking out loud, sorry if it gets muddled....

With the Baldwin sign in our front yard, the neighboring Christians have been unwilling to take up the bait and ask "why don't you vote for McCain and Sarah?" (she is a modern day Ester you know)

Talked with my sister in Alaska. The Palin issue was perfect to sketch out how different our family is now, where we are going etc.

Most of modern Christianity is reduced to comments like "that's nice"....."okaaaaay."

Just as Americans generically we are unprepared to engage one another in what used to just be conversation. You know, say things like...."Why do you think that?" Society has conditioned most people, to when asked that question, to now just say anything, like "That's just what I think" and everyone else should then yield to your individual choice. So its almost pointless to ask. We just nod our head understandingly and let some of the most stupid stuff stand like it is self attesting truth.

As believers it should always be on the table to come from the "How do you arrive at that from scripture?" angle. Really, we Christians have also been conditioned to "feel" that something like that would be....impolite....none of our business(?)....rude(?) ...intolerant (horrid)....judgmental (God forbid!) We appear to be disarmed with this, everyone gets to decide what the verse means to them mentality. I don't remember it being this way in the 70's but at the same time I cannot remember a specific time when it just became the normal Zeitgeist that it is today.

Our Christianity actually makes it harder for believers to communicate? The level of tentativeness is through the roof I think. We feel a security in our faith but its like everything else is off the table. Like its impossible to know, that which is good and that which is evil as we have shifted the standard off of God and his word and placed it in individual man and what he thinks the word means.

Now this is so refreshing that we have dragged the whole carcass back into church and are now going "what sayeth the scriptures?" as we poke at it! Not to mention fun. Of course we have a different set of issues to deal with. Loving each other as we try to handle the two edged sword in manners that we are not used to seeing. This way layeth the truth though.

Yes, family worship as a weapon of mass destruction. The Gates of hell shall not prevail against our Lords Kingdom.