Friction
GUEST POST from my nephew NATE WHITELOCK
So, here’s my thought this morning, which I decided to share with y’all..
I do my best to avoid doctrinal debates, drawing hard lines, painting in black and white when mulling over disagreements with other believers, because I don’t care for division. In the church, FRICTION is okay from time to time. (Iron sharpens iron, and that is always a process of rubbing against one another). BUT, division is horrible. Our church doesn’t need divided…, and your community doesn’t need another “church.”
We live in the heart of the information age. KNOWING has, in itself, become it’s own tower of Babel, and where Jesus used to sit and quietly whisper truths to us through the power of his Spirit, we are now SO accustomed to just knowing everything, or being able to GOOGLE it, that we won’t let him. We have to know everything, but we won’t wait for him to teach us the lesson. I’m not saying you shouldn’t study, but if you dive into scriptures with irreverence, JUST to know more than other people know, just to prove your point, just to be able to argue more skillfully, where is your heart? Where is it really?
I’ve said it a thousand times, I’ll say it a thousand more. We are imperfect people, trying to understand an infinite and inconceivable God. We’ll NEVER understand even a portion of him while we’re here. So, accepting that will go a long way towards avoiding division within the body. That flies in the face of the world’s attitude towards knowledge, and that in itself should tell us something.
We have fundamental answers to offer to the world around us. Truth that needs to be shared, help that needs to be offered. But as long as Christ-followers are kept busy bickering with each other over the details, we’re not doing that. We need to start accepting that when it comes to *some* things, “I don’t know” isn’t a dirty word. I DON’T know. And on some topics, I’ll NEVER know. But… isn’t that where faith comes in?
Have a blessed day, be salt, be light!”
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