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The issue of intimacy is a good one. I wonder what it's like to be a professional athelete...do they love the attention? Tune it out? Is Tebow, as an example, aware of the show or is it something where he tunes everyone out? I'm not defending the practice, per se, but I think it's actually rather complicated.
Private, intimate, proclamatory, their lives are on display? It's hard to know.
Regarding the history of seemingly righteous people falling short, yeah. That's what gets me. I assume he a hypocrite in the making, but to refute that point Tebow is giving his money away through his foundation. ESPN writers are often defending him. His fellow Christian football players defend him. It's interesting.
Now, is he a good enough quarterback to succeed in the NFL? Who knows?
The issue of intimacy is a good one. I wonder what it's like to be a professional athelete...do they love the attention? Tune it out? Is Tebow, as an example, aware of the show or is it something where he tunes everyone out? I'm not defending the practice, per se, but I think it's actually rather complicated.
Private, intimate, proclamatory, their lives are on display? It's hard to know.
Regarding the history of seemingly righteous people falling short, yeah. That's what gets me. I assume he a hypocrite in the making, but to refute that point Tebow is giving his money away through his foundation. ESPN writers are often defending him. His fellow Christian football players defend him. It's interesting.
Now, is he a good enough quarterback to succeed in the NFL? Who knows?
Ha! Indeed.
I want to think some more together on the citizenship of those who are the Body of Christ. After WWII Harry Emerson Fosdick was asked to preach in Geneva. Apparently he came down on the gathered world leaders like a ton of bricks as Christian nation had risen up against Christian nation. Believer killing one another. He was rather incensed that we had put national identity over Christian identity. He's not the first to say so...
What do you think of this? "Christians dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners. As citizens they share in all things with others, and yet endure all thins as if foreigners. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers...They pass their days on earth, but are citizens of heaven." - Letter to Diogenetus, ch. 5, A Roberts and J. Donaldson, The Apostolic Fathers: Ante Nicene Christians Library Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to AD 325 Part One, Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing 2004.
What I find challenging about Julie's post...and hopeful at the same time is this call to prioritize Christian identity over and above national identity as opposed to saying that our national identity is a sign of our Christian identity. Thus, the quotation.
John Lennon, if the lyric is any indication, would say that no one should ever have to die for anything...or, more accurately, kill for anything. That's the price he's truly concerned about. There is nothing worth killing for. Nothing. We can romanticize dying for something...but what we're usually doing is dying while trying to kill the enemy. We just lose the fight and die. That said, there's no pure enough motive that is worth dying for, no innocent system that holds a pure virtue...etc.
Amen, Rob. Thank you. This is the letter I wish I had written to my congregation when I left. Thank you. See you in California!